Those of you who live in windy areas may have seen some of these meterology towers. They are used by wind energy companies to prospect for areas suitable for wind farms and once a location is planned for a project, it aids in deciding turbine layout. As you can see in this enlargement (click to …
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Girls Gone Wild, Part II
Three years after this day, my twins are taller and the farm has swapped cattle for soybeans (a bad trade from my perspective), but a day in the field is still worth a week at a desk! We found a strip of grass still standing and walked it back and forth until Ernie had his …
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Scientists have sequenced the genome of the Black Death and say they want to recreate the original bacterium. Is this a great idea? Colorado girls get busted for making s’mores. It’s tough out there. Enjoy this interesting interview with Charles Mann about his new book 1493. I’m in the middle of it now. Some gardeners …
Aspens
It is that season here in Colorado, so I’ll put up a couple of pictures we took at Kenosha Pass a couple of weeks ago. We were a little early and all of the trees hadn’t turned yet. I’m sure they are mostly bare now after the last couple of storms. And an echo of …
Books are Fun
Now that Steve and Libby have joined us in the ranks of grandparents, I believe we should declare open season on grandkid pictures – especially ones that reflect themes in this blog. At 20 months of age, Isabella has decided that looking at books is great fun. I wonder how she inherited that? Apparently Bella …
Cyanocitta cristata
Somehow it always seems to surprise me when I see these Blue Jays of my youth out here at the western end of their range. I hadn’t seen this many at once before at our feeders. There was a fourth who wouldn’t cooperate with the photo process. They ended up getting bullied off the food …
Hanging with the Big Bucks
I took this picture from my deck during the snowstorm last Saturday morning.
Denver & Rio Grande
We recently finished fieldwork for a wind farm project in south-central Colorado, Huerfano County to be exact. We found quite a few prehistoric sites, that I’ll talk about in another post, but perhaps the most significant historic thing we found was an abandoned grade of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. The D&RG was founded …
Born to Hunt
John Barsness has just released his latest book, Born to Hunt, a collection of essays that ranges from his home in Montana to Africa and the Arctic, along with more obscure destinations like Norway and Ireland. If you read magazines you surely know that John is one of the most prolific “gun writers” alive, as …
Fall shipping
This seemingly peaceful scene is deceptive (click photos to enlarge). That’s Vega, one of the Aziat females, lounging on the hillside in the foreground of the parked sheep wagons, trying to ignore what we were doing to her herd. Just outside of the photo are the portable sheep pens, filled to the brim with thousands …