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Every spring brings not just the greening of the hillsides, but the mud season here in Nederland. The normal mud season is late April/early May when the last of the winter snows melt. But this year, because of the prolonged rain through the month of May, we’ve had a second…
Continue readingAs part of my job with the Parks and Open Space, I help staff a booth at local festivals around the area. This weekend, Boulder held one if its biggest festivals, the Boulder CreekFest, with hundreds of tents spanning several blocks of Boulder’s main downtown area. Unfortunately, the Weather Gods…
Continue readingSomething I most appreciate about living in the mountains is the chance to experience nature and view wildlife in its own habitat. The first weekend we moved into our home in Nederland, I caught a glimpse of something on our front porch. When I peered out the window, at first…
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I talked to a friend today who spent the last two months over in England. She joked that she felt as if she had never left England returning back to Colorado, because it was cold, rainy and green. All jokes aside, we have had a wet, couple of weeks here…
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