So the sign on the hotel door read NO SMOKING OF ANYTHING INSIDE! “Hmm,” I thought to myself. “I must be in Colorado.” We are on our first trip out of state since August 2019, cruising up central Colorado to Steamboat Springs and back, magnificent scenery all the way, cool temperatures, and signs of a […]

I apologize for the poor quality of this photo, but I shot in through the screen, in some haste to capture the image before it vanished. If you observe the rainbow from today’s cloudburst, you’ll see it stretches all the way to the ground in front of the treeline. The rainbow actually touches ground a […]

So have I ever told you about the time my dad was held hostage by a gun-wielding madman? No, I didn’t think so. My dad was quite young at the time, under ten years of age, so perhaps his memories of the incident aren’t 100% accurate, but on the other hand it’s not the sort […]

While the Northwest U.S. and Canada are suffering under their “heat dome,” with Canada thrice recording an all-time high temperature of 121F, my own neighborhood is experiencing a cold front. The weekend’s predicted rain in Taos Ski Valley was delayed— I got in two hikes, not one, before the skies opened— but when the rain […]