At the start of the pandemic, Jo Firestone began teaching a weekly online comedy workshop for seniors. Stand-up comedy as a profession can be …
Bindweed can smother a garden and kill someone’s interest in gardening in no time.
Mark and I couldn’t hear any birds over the sound of wind in the leaves. That’s not unusual for Wyoming, but we were in Pennsylvania where the…
October is a great time to star gaze; the skies are frequently clear, the temperatures haven’t dipped in to the frigid range plus you can have…
This summer, I’ve discovered that gardens need editing. The authors, Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, of the garden book I’m rereading, “Planti…
September evening skies are a mixture of summer constellations overhead and still dominating the western sky, with the dimmer and less obvious…
Would you be interested in a collection of my Wyoming Tribune Eagle gardening columns? The book, “Cheyenne Garden Gossip: Locals Share Secrets…
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August is one of my favorite times of year to observe the stars, and that’s because it’s warm! High overhead is Hercules, which contains a won…
The Laramie County Master Gardeners’ Garden Walk is back. The theme is “Habitat Hero” gardens. It’s scheduled for July 11, 1-4 p.m. It’s free,…
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 yo…
It was an exceptional spring for flowering crabapple trees all over town. Our wet weather provided moisture and no late frost killed the buds …
June 20 brings us the summer solstice, so warmer weather has hopefully arrived in Wyoming.
We had to buy new grow lights because we had so many tomato seedlings this spring. If you arrive at the Laramie County Master Gardener Plant S…
It isn’t good, it isn’t bad. We can’t make moral judgements. It just is. This is the message Jesse McCarty had for us about the Mullen Fire.
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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 …
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