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Garden for Wildlife

Garden bird house Spring has finally settled in, and for many of us, that means it’s time to go outside and play in the dirt! I have started a major landscaping project, which has involved much research into how to make the land work beneficially for both the people and wildlife involved. (More on that story later) In doing all this research, I found that you can get your home-balcony-school-business wildlife certified by the National Wildlife Foundation. Official certification costs a minimum of $20, which basically buys you a years subscription to their magazine. For the month of May, NWF is planting a tree in honor of those who certify. Any additional proceeds go to the organizations projects, astoundingly %80 of donations is used for conservation and education programs. I say astoundingly after some friends of mine were mentioning their frustrations with the allocation of funds of some other causes they were supporting.

Donating funds aside, the National Wildlife Foundation website has lots of useful information in how to make your garden habitable for wildlife. In my own garden I planted some salvia to attract hummingbirds, Lo and Behold I have seen hummingbirds everyday since!

Need some help with your garden? Feel free to drop me a line!

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A Hipster Treatise

A lot of people seem to talk about hipsters. A lot of that talk is not very nice. And I really don’t understand why. I aim to remove some of that negativity. Or at least stir things up a bit. What is a hipster anyway? This is not the easiest question to answer. It couldContinue Reading

The Hunt for the Outlaw Cabin

Lisa Foster’s guide to the Rocky Mountain National Park trails is well known in Estes Park. You could call it definitive. A local heroine, Lisa has climbed each and every trail herself. A note in the forward by park ranger Jim Detterline, who had climbed with Lisa, caught my attention. ‘After climbing hidden falls, weContinue Reading

Bogotá

I know what you’re thinking. I say one story each week and then what do I do? Take off to South America. Sure I could have set up my blog posts ahead of time. Certainly I meant to, it’s what any good blogger would have done. But I am not a good blogger. Facts areContinue Reading

California

The day came I was headed to California. Time to spend a month on the beach. I got up early, packed, and drank a beer on the steps while I played guitar. I had sat out there often the last few months. My own little piece of the great outdoors. I’d order wings from aContinue Reading

Ride Share to Colorado

Reed Jones was tall, tan and lanky. He had thin curly hair, and a careful, thought out manner about him. I showed up at Jo’s already soaked in sweat. Big Medicine had come with me to make sure this guy was ‘all right’ and went off to get coffee. Reed recognized me right away. ApparentlyContinue Reading

Austin

Ahh Jo’s Café. All the seating is outdoors (who would ever need to be inside in Austin???) they have oulets and wifi. AND. This was the best part. Coffee was a DOLLAR when you brought your own mug. Which of course I did. They had breakfast tacos and hot salsa. I sat staring at myContinue Reading

And So it Begins

“We always knew Carrie was a gypsy. She has cymbals on her heels.” -Sam Ziemer If nothing else the fortuneteller kicked my butt into gear. I did yoga and meditated almost every day. I began to cook my own food, much of it from scratch. I felt good, strong. I was on top of theContinue Reading

What the Fortune Teller Said

I was trembling. My heart clenched and I was awash in an unexplainable fear. It started when I was about two blocks from the fortunetellers. I was waiting for Gilly to find parking, doing my best to smile and ignore the feeling that I was being squashed from all sides. It was Gilly’s birthday andContinue Reading

The Commitment

New Years Day 2012 found me journaling in the zocalo of Oaxaca, Mexico. I marveled at having finally achieved world traveler status -my passport was stamped and I had no plans of returning to the states. In fact, I didn’t have many plans at all. I cancelled my phone, teasing my friend Yuliya, “Have IContinue Reading