Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Emerging king bolete. "Anatoly" Baskets were stacked in the pickup's bed — big, flat-bottomed baskets with integral hand...

David Arora's book A ll That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms  is one of our favorites, right afte...

Pal, the proto-Lassie, in 1942 (Wikipedia). Entertainment-industry dog news is outside the remit of this blog, except that I recently m...

¶ Want to buy a southern Colorado ghost town? It has been mostly restored , and it is a National Historic District too. Listed with Sotheby...

Sheep Mountain in western Huerfano County under an uncommon cap of cloud, post-thunderstorm. It and its neighbor, Little Sheep Mountain, a...

A week ago we stopped in at "the lodge," the first time in years. Despite the merely average food (heavy on burgers and burri...

Our watershed has a song! Performance by Devin James Fry for the bees in Austin, Texas. Tip of the big-brimmed hat to Kenny Paul at Pou...

I apologize to everyone whose email I did not answer or whose editing job I am behind schedule on, but yesterday despite (because of?) th...

1933 flood waters at Union Station, Denver (Colorado Historical Society). At the end of a rainy week, let's remember some famous Col...

¶ After a year, is El Paso County about ready to prosecute someone for starting the Black Forest Fire? It seems obvious that it started at ...

The re-seeding of one of the recent forest fire burns near home, combined with two wet-enough springs in a row, produced wonderful grass. ...

A neighborhood in Aguilar (Google Maps). A prequel. I do not know where Bear 839 (her ear-tag number) was born or when—maybe in 2011—b...

There would have been no more arguments about global warming, etc., after 2012 if this had happened a little differently — mainly because t...

This is the building, except it is painted white now. The Walter Brewing Co. was a southern Colorado institution from 1898 until 1975, h...

I have always owned sneakers, but they become more and more expensive yet don't last any longer. M. usually blows out a pair of sneak...