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Month: January 2019

Colorado Blue Spruce

On January 31, 2019May 17, 2019 By Kat CouchIn Pinaceae, Trees1 Comment

A local news station has a recurring segment they run called “The Most Colorado Thing I Saw Today.” Viewers send in photos, or one of the reporters comes across something quaint or quirky. You know the sort of thing. Cowboys skiing at Steamboat. Ranchers riding their horses through Walmart. Folks fly-fishing a flooded cul-de-sac in …

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The Very, Very Few Birds of Winter

On January 23, 2019 By Kat CouchIn Aves, Photography1 Comment

This time of year I sometimes feel like a castaway walking to the edge of the surf and looking long and hard at the horizon. Inside the house here, plants that can’t overwinter outside are struggling: some of the Calendula succumbed to aphids; the rosemary dried — it likes neither electric heat nor wet feet, …

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Daylight, skunk

On January 18, 2019November 26, 2019 By Kat CouchIn Mammals, Mephitidae2 Comments

I recently wrote a poem called “Skunk, Twilight”, which I include below. It sometimes happens, despite every good intention to walk during the week, that the time gets away, and especially in these short winter days, the sun is down before you know it. We have barely nine and a half hours between sunrise and …

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