Week 11-16--22-13 - New Castle, CO:
View from the Colorow Trail north of New Castle
Trail through town
Galleries of Emerald Ash Borers - an invasive pest that's been ravaging ash trees in the East and Midwest, which unfortunately, despite aggressive quarantine management practices, just made it across the Plains to Boulder, CO this Fall. As an arborist, I'm dreading the inevitability of EAB hopping the Rockies and decimating our ash populations in western CO, since Fraxinus is one of the few genera of deciduous trees that can survive in the Intermountain West.
The Front Range of the CO Rockies
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Week 11-23--29-13 - Missouri:
David Sedaris in Denver, CO
Working on Julia's roof in La Plata, MO
Drying apples, venison, and chile peppers by the wood stove in La Plata
A truly local, homegrown Thanksgiving at the Possibility Alliance - every last ingredient grown by the cooks
A cold time of year to work on a roof
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Week 11-30--12-6-13 - Missouri:
Finishing the prep work for the roof at night by flood light
The standing seam roof at last goes on at Giving Tree Homestead
The roof finished at last! Next summer Julia and Mike will fill in the walls with straw bale construction
A rooster watches over the hens taking their dust baths at the Possibility Alliance in La Plata, MO
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Week 12-7--13-13 - Myrtle Beach, SC:
Brookgreen Gardens
A tawny owl peeks out at sundown at Brookgreen Gardens
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Week 12-14--20-13 - Washington DC and Philadelphia:
Atrium in the National Museum of the American Indian
Santa makes a surprise appearance at a Christmas party in Virginia
30th Street Station in Philadelphia
Mt Airy
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Week 12-21--27-13 - Philadelphia:
Dinosaur Gingerbread Cookies
Christmas Eve service at First United Methodist Church of Germantown
Christmas day with the Jack-Scotts
Valley Green
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Week 12-28-13--1-3-14 - New England:
Connecticut Coastline
The newly renovated New England Aquarium
Boston Harbor
Valley Falls, NY
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Week 1-4--10-14 - Upstate NY and Kansas City, MO:
Valley Falls, NY
Delmar, NY - Uncle John's Japanese garden
Delmar, NY
Flying to Kansas City
Panda and Lucca demonstrate how winter nights are best spent
Making Silly Brandz bracelets with the Urick boys
Returning to the Rockies
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Week 1-11--17-14 - Western CO:
This is what a 6 year old's birthday looks like
Snorums 2nd Annual Ugly Sweater Party
Watching mom and dad play hockey
Legal recreational weed goes on sale in Garfield County at the Doctor's Garden in Carbondale, CO
The scar across the middle of the Hogback mountain range in New Castle won't hold snow or grow plants from a slow-burning coal seam fire that's been burning for over a century inside
More snow in New Castle
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Week 1-18--24-14 - Western CO:
Main Elk trail
X-Games in Aspen, CO
This is what an 8 year old's birthday party looks like
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Week 1-25--31-13 - Western CO:
Sunset at Powderhorn, CO
A new snowfall covers historic downtown in New Castle, CO
Sunlight Mountain in Glenwood Springs, CO
The Hogback mountain range that cuts through New Castle - at the far left of the photo you can again see the coal seam fire scar
