Pioneer signatures preserved in Garden of the Gods chamber of secrets
A snowstorm ended Indian summer in the first week of November 1848. Four feet of snow blanketed the Garden of the Gods, breaking branches...
NEW EDITION of 1878 BOOK! "Colorado: Bits of Travel at Home" by Helen Hunt Jackson
I’m happy to announce the release of my newest book: Colorado: Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson on Kindle.
Penitente Canyon: Magic and Mystery in Southern Colorado
Penitente Canyon, on the western edge of the San Luis Valley, a Connecticut-sized basin in southern Colorado, has long been a sacred...
Renaming Mount Evans: Thoughts on the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
A few days ago, a formal petition was filed by the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and The Wilderness Society with the Board...
Coolest Colorado Building: US Olympic & Paralympic Museum
Colorado Springs, home of the big box building, is now home to one of the coolest new buildings in the United...
The Hills were Alive with the Sound of Music: Photo of the Da Vinci Quartet in 1982
This is a photograph that I shot of the Da Vinci Quartet in late October 1982 for the cover of a local magazine in Colorado Springs...
Penitente Canyon: A Climbing Ghost Story
What is our pagan holiday Samhain without a good spook story? This is the time of year, after the harvest...
Journalism Gives a View into Other Lives Like Rancher Tom Lasater
've spent most of my adult life telling stories with words and images, except for a few misspent years hauling bricks, mixing mortar...
What is the Oldest Photo of the Garden of the Gods?
I’ve been working on a modern version of a book about Colorado that was published in 1877 (more to come of that at a future date), so...
NEW COLORADO PARK! Sandstone Ranch Open Space
I spent today roaming around Sandstone Ranch Open Space, a 2,038-acre nature preserve between Palmer Lake and...
