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The Runoff Season

Today, temperatures in Boulder reached almost 90 degrees, and highs here in Nederland approached 80.  It feels like we went straight from winter to summer with about two weeks of spring in between.  Such is the weather along the Front Range of Colorado, where if you don’t like it, wait a…

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The Greening of the Foothills

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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Colorado’s Open Spaces

I recently accepted a seasonal position with Boulder County Parks and Open Space, and interpretive and outreach position very similar to what I had been doing with the National Park Service.  When I shared the news with my family, they were a bit confused.  One of my relative asked if…

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Living in a Log Cabin

Ever since I was young, I have been fascinated with log homes or log cabins.  There’s something so romantic and utterly western feeling about living in a home made of logs.  It makes me think of the early settlers, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, Little House in the Big Woods….

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