Southern Rockies Nature Blog

  A ristra in the kitchen, slowly disappearing. B ack from a post-fire holiday in Taos County, New Mexico, where I encountered the Ristra Ri...

    Video from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.   A log jam on the Arkansas River -- probably the first time I have heard of one of those -- i ...

The projecting beam caught fire, which was luckily caught by firefighters working in the area.  A s the Aspen Acres Fire moved toward them i...

  Having driven out of the hills and onto the prairie,  we stopped for a short break before going on to Pueblo. Where did this blog go? No, ...

It's a long way from the Southern Rockies, but this video fits the June 20 theme of " predators and fawns/calves. "  A friend ...

The suspect makes his first pre-dawn appearance.   My "neighborhood" is a little too rural for apps like Nextdoor , but we do have...

A week ago, Marco the Chessie and I were walking up a pedestrian-bike trail that goes trough "open space" by the Walking Stock gol...

Paddleboarders on the Arkansas (Colorado Parks & Wildlife) Today's Colorado Sun  reports that the low snowpack -- 24 percent for the...

I read once about this Appalachian doctor who told a patient to take a certain medicine in the winter and to keep taking it "until sna...

Antero Reservoir (Colorado Parks & Wildlife A ntero Reservoir, one of the two "saucer" reservoirs in South Park, as I like to ...

Marco checks out a muddy arroyo in Huerfano County. I let March go by without posting. That's bad. I was deep into the most annoying boo...

Something there is that does not like a yellowjacket --  but loves to tear up the nests and eat fat larvae.  * * *   T his was a rough autum...

  I'm using the broad definition, not the Kansas-centric one . And it's the Colorado Otero County, not the New Mexican Otero. But bo...

A couple of days ago, I checked the trail camera nearest the house, located about 80 yards up  the ridge in back. With apologies for the inf...

A straight road in the Pawnee Nat. Gransslands. Not CO 71. S ome years back I was flying from London (Gatwick) to Denver, across the Atlanti...