A Welcome Snow

WINTER HAS FINALLY arrived in Colorado’s Front Range. And not before time. In truth, a day earlier would have been better.

You may have seen the news: the wind-fueled wild fires on December 30th that torched over 1,000 homes and businesses south of Boulder. I saw the smoke from my home twelve miles to the south, never guessing how bad things were. The winds were ferocious – powerful gusts that blew bins and branches down the street and tore a neighbour’s magnificent and much-loved blue spruce i...