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Where the Pavement Ends Life Begins
Where the weather is schizophrenic and the rules don’t apply
I love spring. I love the feel of the warm sun on the backs of my arms when it's finally nice enough to go outside without a coat. I love seeing the first wildflowers, nay weeds, emerge and give us ...
May 10, 2018 / Bird Farm Life
The Boldness and Courageousness of Youth
Meet some of the Colorado University Class of 2018. I've been looking at the images from a photo shoot with these ladies and I can't decide if I want to laugh or cry. Laugh because they were just ...
May 9, 2018 / photography
Happiness is Not a Destination
"So, I’ve been thinking about this whole being happy thing, and I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy; we’ll ...
May 4, 2018 / photography
We Can’t Go On Being an Egg
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being jus...
May 2, 2018 / Bird Farm Life
Extraordinary Everyday
"Mama, help me dig a moat please?" Nudging the dog aside, I sat down on the sand and started digging. As I worked the Minnie Mouse trowel through the March earth, Wyokiddo chattered on happily. ...
March 18, 2018 / family
The Weight of History
One of my favorite urban spaces is the Goshen County Homesteader's Museum. The museum is actually a collection of buildings, including the historic Torrington train depot, an early 20th century home ...
March 14, 2018 / Goshen County
No Spring Skips its Turn
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. - Hal Borland "Mama, you should have seen that sunrise. It was purple and pink and orange and red," my daughter greeted me yesterday morning as I...
March 9, 2018 / Bird Farm Life
It’s Okay to Be Bored and other lessons in the pit
While other kids here age were still rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, my daughter was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, sitting in a hole in the ground in a field. Today was the inaugural family goos...
January 29, 2018 / Life Outdoors
Pie of the Month Club
When I ask Outdoor Guy what he wants for his birthday, or Christmas or our anniversary, he will inevitably reply "Banana cream pie." The man does love his pie. Cream pies, fruit pies, flavor is irrel...
January 15, 2018 / family