‘Tis the season to smell the Boulder flowers! While flower pics may cheer us during short winter days, it is hard to compete with the beauty and fragrance of lilacs in the Spring. Lilacs are in full bloom, and the perfume permeates the Boulder air. Flowering trees astonish us with the sheer mass of their […]

Spring is without question “Boulder Beautiful.” Flower colors are what I would call “out of the tube” colors. I’ve hopefully captured some of the special magic of spring colors in these snapshots. This group is from our back yard. Enjoy! Flowers remain fascinating even in their final days of existence. We would do well to […]

Our newest Boulder Featured Artist is Michelle Grimes. While her art alone justifies her selection to be Featured, she is a woman of many skills and talents. In addition to being an accomplished artist, she is a teacher, a professionally trained Mrs. Claus, a teacher of teachers, an artist, and also teaches summer camps in […]

Hype or Horror? Is Fentanyl really a thousand times stronger than heroin, or is it all Boulder hype? ” Devil’s lettuce” and other less colorful references kept cannabis scary and illegal for many decades, and it turned out to be mostly nonsense. What about Fentanyl? What about naloxone, Narcan, available over-the-counter? The answer is “yes” […]

Crystals are often used in alternative healing practices and spiritual pursuits for their purported metaphysical properties. Here’s a breakdown of how they’re used and some specific types that are popular: Healing Properties Many people believe that crystals can promote physical, emotional, and spiritual healing by interacting with the body’s energy field, or chakra. Some spiritual […]

  Here’s how my favorite AMTRAK ZEPHYR conductor told it as we passed through a tiny Colorado town. The tiny town of No Name sits up on a bluff on the North side of the rail line, perhaps 500 yards above the tracks if memory serves me. And it doesn’t. Don’t rely on my memory […]

Have you ever had a cell phone call dropped, whether it is a Boulder to Boulder call or a Boulder to Mexico or to Iceland call? If that has not happened to you, you have never used a cell phone! Is it possible to ease any of the stress and annoyance associated with simple cell […]

We Boulderites watch a LOT of movies. We see them on TV, in the movie theaters, and even being made on our own streets. We see a LOT of the finest acting on the planet. We’ve heard of different approaches to acting, different techniques for drawing the watcher into the film. While most of us […]

I was educated in the East and then came West to Boulder. Six weeks after Rutgers Law saw fit to bestow a Juris Doctor degree on me, making me legally a lawyer, I arrived in Boulder with a U-Haul, April 1975. I chose that over driving a Mercedes in New Jersey, and it was one […]

Boulder‘s Rufous-sided Towhee, now more commonly known as the Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), is a striking bird species within the American sparrow family (Passerellidae). This bird is particularly noted for its unique appearance and melodious song, making it a fascinating subject of study for ornithologists and bird watchers alike. How many images of this sparrow-family […]