Category: Colorado Mileposts
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At the PLA Conference
I was lucky enough to work the Women Writing the West booth at the Public Librarians Association (PLA) Conference in Denver last week. We had a whole lot of fun, first setting the booth up, and then sharing Women Writing the West with librarians from across the country. We were able to share dozens of…
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Valley of the Cranes
My husband and I went down to the San Luis Valley, in south central Colorado, last weekend. We’ve been down there to see the sandhill crane migration several times in the last few years (Miniature Upslope Storm), and it is always an amazing experience. Twenty thousand cranes pass through the San Luis Valley in late…
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Nuthatches pairing up
We’ve had a couple of red-breasted nuthatches coming to our bird baths up on Green Mountain this week. I’ve always enjoyed nuthatches because they remind me of darts that have been thrown really hard. After doing some research, I learned that you can tell males from females because males have black stripes on their heads,…
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Downy Woodpecker Stops By
By and large, this winter has been notable for the lack of birds we’ve had come by. We just haven’t had many birds since the Week of Water in 2013. (Record-demolishing Storm) We still have most of our feeders up, but we are currently feeding squirrels with occasional house fiches, mourning and collared doves, and…
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AAA EnCompass Article Includes Trail Ridge Road
Last fall, I had the pleasure of chatting about Trail Ridge Road with writer Clay Latimer, as he gathered information on an article about six of Colorado’s most spectacular highways. The results are in his wonderful article “Colorado’s Highway History”(Colorado Highway History). Also, check out my new website — AmyLawAuthor — where to buy my…
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Not reindeer, but…
We had a small herd of deer come into our yard this week. We’ve had deer in the neighbor’s yards before (Backyard Deer), but with our dogs, this is the first time in years that they’ve come into ours. The recent cold weather has kept the snow from recent storms on the ground longer than…
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Air Inversion Traps Cold Air, Pollution
Normally on Green Mountain you get a wonderful view of Denver. Often the air is so clear that we can see the terminals of DIA across the Platte valley. Not yesterday. Yesterday, we saw a thick grey smudge across the skyline – pollution held in place by an air inversion. We all know what…
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Suburban Chipmunk
I saw this little chipmunk on our back porch before the snow came. You can tell it’s a chipmunk instead of a ground squirrel because of the lines that start on its face and run all the way down its back. While ground squirrels have lines down their backs, they lines only start after the…
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Colorado Matters Over Trail Ridge Road
Nathan Heffel Fernando-Frescas and I went over Trail Ridge Road recently. Here is the interview that aired on September 28, 2015. As an extra, Colorado Public Radio asked me to do an extra piece on Visiting Rocky Mountain National Park Over Trail Ridge Road with Nathan Heffel Fernando-Frescas
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Interview to air September 29
Two weeks ago Nathan Heffel of Colorado Public Radio and I went over Trail Ridge Road, enjoying the amazing natural history of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Join us as we see wild turkeys and elk, hike to an ancient hunting site, and pause to inspect the head of one of the enormous glaciers that…
Amy Law, Science Geek 