It seems like spring is a month early this year. The geese arrived the last weekend of February, and the prairie dogs are even peeking out, chattering at me and the dogs. As you can see from this photo, by last weekend, the snowcover was gone from the sagebrush, and the pronghorn were looking great …
Month: March 2009
Web Miscellany
Chas has joined the local volunteer fire department and thinks he may get called to duty during today’s Red Flag alert. Early this morning I saw a couple of Army Blackhawk helicopters headed south to help fight a big fire at Ft. Carson. Cowboy poets get a fair amount of press – Baxter Black used …
Ugly Bat Boy
I will not argue with the assertion that this is the ugliest cat in the world.
Denver Public Art
As Connie will be glad to tell you, this horrific horse perched outside of Denver International Airport drives me nuts. Officially known as “Blue Mustang” it is especially obnoxious after dark when the orange eyes light up. I have offered to contribute to a fund to buy C-4 to blow it up. The NY Times …
Fretmarks
Pluvialis is posting again. Except I just noticed she dropped her nom de blog and is just regular Helen now. Go on over and welcome her back.
Pruning
This warm spell we’re having came at just the right time for me to get to work on the peach trees.
Photos from Henry
I hope he doesn’t mind. It might have helped to ask… But Henry sent some nice photos from our Blogger meet-up last weekend, and I wanted to share. I posted some cell-phone quality videos of the squirrel hunting below; here are better images of the hawking portion of the trip. First stop, a walk across …