Jaymee Squires
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Trees make our world beautiful. We don’t think about it often, but especially here in the Colorado High Country, trees make our landscape lush, green, vibrant, and alive. They provide shade from the..
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Topics: Curious Nature
There may be no more exciting and gut-wrenching time of life than the birth of a child. Consider the preparation, the planning, and the sleepless nights that any expectant parent might go through as..
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Did you know there’s a wildlife safari right outside your window? I watched it the other day, marveling at how much I must miss just by not looking. I had opened my window to let in some of that..
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It’s a new year in so many ways as we face this brave new world. And what the New Year brings, in some ways, is up to us. Where will we focus our energy? How will we spend our time? The answers to..
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The coming of the winter solstice means that this Wednesday will be the shortest day of the year for those of us in the northern hemisphere. But the shortest day also means the longest night, and..
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Earlier this month, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, officially making the American bison the national mammal of the United States. The great bison now joins the ranks of the..
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Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another. So says the all-powerful, all-governing, and all-encompassing First Law of Thermodynamics, also known as..
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The plane’s engines revved, we torpedoed down the runway, and we were airborne. Suddenly I was looking at all the familiar landmarks of my home from a whole new perspective. In fact, there was my..
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As the sky grew dark the other night, I stepped out into the growing twilight to call my kids in from their play and I was treated to one of my favorite nighttime sights. The slightly awkward..
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Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. That’s the way it sometimes feels here in Colorado when the rivers are raging. Colorado’s mountains create the headwaters of four major U.S. river..
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Can you feel it? Can you feel the warmth? Traveling over 93 million miles through the void and darkness of space, the sun’s light brings warmth and life to our planet. Logically, we know that the sun..
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Some of my best memories from childhood are of sneaking into my mom’s garden to gorge myself on sweet peas. As I now watch my own children doing the same thing, I smile secretly to myself as it..
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