Tag: sand lily

• Windy Mountain Shrub Ecosystem Hike

  

  With the leaf canopy of the big trees fill in and the baby Great Horned Owls fledged, my husband and I decided to take a hike in the foothills west of our house. This hike took us through the Mountain Shrub plant community — the boundary between the High Plains and the Ponderosa Pine plant…

  Amy Law

  May 17, 2025

  Colorado Mileposts, Science Geek Blog

  butterflies, carnation, gnatcatcher, jay, Lazuli bunting, legumes, mountain shrub, penstemon, sand lily, sparrow, violet, wind

• Get Out!

  Looking back to make sure that winter didn’t reach out and take hold of us one last time, I almost missed that spring has arrived. And what a spring it promises to be! Last September’s torrential rains dumped up to twenty inches of rain in some areas along the Colorado Front Range. Before the rains…

  Amy Law

  April 29, 2014

  Colorado Mileposts

  Colorado, Colorado floods, floods, golden banner, golden current, natural history, pasqueflower, sand lily, wildflowers