Rocky Mountain Wildflowers — Linda Nagy

      One early-blooming beauty is hard to find and endangered by collectors in the Colorado Rockies. If one has a keen eye and a little luck, he or she just might spot a Fairy Slipper or Calypso Orchid growing in shaded forests among leaf litter on the forest floor. This tiny exotic plant, Calypso bulbosa, is a member of the Orchid Family and has 3 slender pink petal-like sepals, 2 small petals, and one bulb-like petal that forms the slipper shape. A single leaf appears before the blossom appears and remains until the flower goes to seed. Plants grow from...

                   Linda and I attended the first “Meet the Authors” event in Salida, Colorado on March 29, 2014. It was Linda’s first book signing for her Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Field Guide. Fourteen local authors including us met at the Salida Community Center and we spoke about our latest books in front of a supportive audience. Linda and I were pleased with our book signings and sales afterwards. Authors attending were from Salida, Cotopaxi, Fairplay, Westcliffe and Como, Colorado. The range of genre represented by the authors was from history, historical fact and fiction, fantasy, nature, young adult, Native American, self-help...

                                    Curious free-roaming burros near Eleven Mile Reservoir In March of 2014 Bernie and I got up close and personal with a healthy looking wild burro herd near Eleven  Mile Reservoir. The burros enjoyed bits and pieces of an apple that we cut up and offered to them. Look at the one picture where the burro in the center is eying the delicious apple in my hand. More pictures and images of these beautiful animals can be found in our award-winning coffee table books Colorado’s South Park: High Country Paradise on pages 92 and 93 and South Park Colorado: Nature’s...