April evening skies have the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga all found in the western sky.
Shrubs are much more forgiving of pruning than trees. Pruning shrubs is more for aesthetic purposes.
The evening skies in March offer you a very obvious contrast between seasonal constellations. The plentiful and brilliant stars that make up w…
February is a busy time for those of us who enjoy a plant-filled life.
Prominent in the February evening sky you’ll find the brilliant winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and A…
There are many variables affecting the number of birds and bird species seen on the Christmas Bird Count. Weather is a big one. Dec. 19, the C…
“Fort Laramie Strawberries are from the ‘ice-box’ section of our nation, Cheyenne, Wyoming. This is a super hardy, wonderfully producing ever-…
Douglas Tallamy is a mild-mannered entomology and ecology professor at the University of Delaware. He imparts the wisdom he gains from his ins…
Thinking about ways to treat yourself or a gardening friend this holiday season? See what you think of these ideas.
By early November, our winter feeder birds are back.
The downhill skiing and snowboarding season is here. Colorado’s Keystone Resort garnered the coveted “first to open” award for Front Range res…
“You are what you eat” is a phrase first attributed to a Frenchman in 1826, then a German in 1863. In 1942, it was the title of a book by Amer…
Nov. 14 marks the beginning of me and Mark’s 22nd season participating in Project FeederWatch. It’s a community/citizen science winter bird co…
I’m trying to follow my own advice to use a notebook to track what I plant (and where) and what the results are. That way, in the depths of wi…
Mark and I were camping in the Cascades with our granddaughter and her parents, watching American dippers fly up and down the Sauk River when …
October is a great time to star gaze. The skies are frequently clear, the temperatures are tolerable and you can have dark skies for a few hou…
It is that time of year again when the hills come alive with color. Or, at least that is what typically occurs by mid- to late September. This…
Canada is happy again. It was not happy in December 2017 when the solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior reinterpreted the U.S. Migr…
September evening skies are a mixture of the summer Milky Way still found overhead and dominating the western sky with the dimmer and less obv…
“…a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” – William Shakespeare
High overhead, in July, you’ll find the constellation Hercules. The four stars making up the top of Hercules is known as the Keystone, and if …
Mail-order seed companies report they are running out of seed – vegetable seeds, primarily. Seems like we’re all wanting to take a step toward…
I am living under the flight path of major construction. A Swainson’s hawk is plucking cottonwood branches from one neighbor’s tree and taking…
The constellations overhead in May are dominated by Leo and Ursa Major. Leo the Lion is easily picked out by a large backward question mark kn…
The women weren’t used to finding the trailhead full on a weekday afternoon.
What we learned at the recent Cheyenne Habitat Hero workshop is there are three alternatives to standard landscaping (turf and foundation junipers).
Spring is when Houghton Mifflin Harcourt likes to send out bird books to review – completely forgetting that as spring migration gets going, b…
Stephanie DiCenso could’ve cried about the skull fractures. About the broken jaw and eye socket. About the nerve damage. About the internal bl…
Although the stars and constellations we see in April are a sure sign spring is here, we know better than that living in Wyoming. At least we …
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