Eric Lars Bakke / Photographer

One of the things I enjoy most about traveling to a new area is being surprised and discovering the unexpected. Last weekend I decided to travel to southeastern Washington to attend the wedding of my friend Tom Weaver’s son Joe. The wedding was in Pullman Washington, home of Washington State University. The easiest route for [...]

Tomorrow around 11:30 a.m. spring arrives in Evergreen and it can’t come soon enough. According to the dictionary, spring is ” the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November”. I am wondering if [...]

Wow, where did this year go? In fact, where did the decade go? It doesn’t seem that long ago that I climbed Bergen Peak  here in Evergreen CO. on New Years Eve 1999 to usher in the new millenium. In the balance of life this was not a great year. However, I have many blessings  [...]

When you live in the mountains or the country  like I do, regular hikes are fun, good for the health and something we look forward to most days. When you are owners of two zany Weimeraners it’s  a requisite. And trust me they remind you constantly. I just finished up a hike yesterday and had [...]

I am not positive but I think fall might be just around the corner. Or at least one of our local bears thinks so. When I went out about 5:45 this morning to disperse the various bird feeders that adorn the property, twelve to be exact, there seemed to be a cooler feel to the [...]

This is more than just another power day.

Spring snow falls offer great photos and relief to our Colorado farmers, ranchers and those of us with drinking wells.