Rain! To fully appreciate it, your state has to have recently suffered the most expensive fire in its history, the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder that destroyed 167 homes. You have to have just endured the hottest September 19 in Denver history — 96°. You have to have driven up to Rocky Mountain National Park … Continue reading Rain in the Rockies
Lots of stuff going on in the world, almost everywhere but here. * * * BP today is going to be cutting off and removing the collapsed, kinked riser pipe from its leaking well in preparation for the installation of a cap on the blowout preventer, which should significantly reduce the amount of oil escaping … Continue reading June 1 brain dump
Why wait till it reaches a beach near you to see BP’s greatest oil extravaganza? Now you can watch it live, as it happens, on the ocean floor, thanks to live streaming video disarmingly labeled “plume monitoring.” Isn’t technology wonderful? It seems it can do almost anything these days — except cap a blown-out well. … Continue reading Coming to you live from the Gulf of Mexico
National news has been the pits lately. But I do have a couple of places I love to visit to unwind. Both are streaming webcams and I’ve mentioned them before. Right now they are better than ever. Phoebe the hummingbird now has two very healthy babies, Hope and Hoku, in her golf-ball sized nest. You’ll … Continue reading Going to the birds
Remember my going bonkers over Phoebe the hummingbird a few months ago? Undeterred by the death of her last baby, nor attacks by lizards and egg-stealing crows, she has soldiered on, built an entirely new nest from scratch (as opposed to refurbishing one of her old ones), and laid two eggs. Yesterday morning, Mother’s Day … Continue reading Phoebe hatches Hope
Online webcams let you visit some of America’s most scenic spots from the comfort of your living room. Continue reading Webcams, the couch potato’s tour bus
