It wasn’t this bad. On Sunday M. and I went up to Salida, Colorado, to catch the last day of FIBArk, the whitewater boating festival, watching competitors come down the frothing Arkansas River as we drove upstream. Our main interest was in the Crazy River Dogs event, which we have managed to attend for three [...]
I have new blog posts in the works, but I had to take off Tuesday and go fishing in the Arkansas River above Cañon City, where these Canada geese were parading up and down the bank, the parents seeming to ponder whether the goslings could handle the current yet. (Of course they could—in the slacker [...]
Back when Enchanté was a zine rather than a blog, Brightshadow did a series of articles on “gods of the city.” These were representations of the Old Gods in statuary, architecture, etc., primarily in New York City, where he lives. New York has no monopoly on them, of course. I like riding a morning train [...]
“Just when you thought you knew what Colorado Springs was all about,” commented a poster on one of the Colorado Pagan email lists. It was the City Dionysia festival, complete with a performance of Euripides’ The Bacchae. There is, of course, a Facebook page, where you can see some photos. I missed it by going [...]
I spent the last three days camping with friends up on the Arapaho National Forest. I have done a little deep-winter camping before, but never before on skis with a sled. I learned that my sleeping bag is not really warm enough for -18 F. (-27 C.) nights. Must remedy that. Even after that short [...]
Anne Hill has her annual Brigid Poetry Festival going—check the comments for linkage. Me, I just had to get Out. Cabin fever was setting in, and walking the dogs close to home or going up on the ridge to cut firewood just was not curing it. So we strapped the touring skis to the Jeep, [...]
Earlier this month, I was reading the Cañon City Daily Record—a humdrum piece about a city council meeting in the nearby town of Florence—when this jumped out at me: “We are welcoming to a great variety of spiritual seekers who would classify themselves in many ways, including alternative spirituality, metaphysical, holistic wellness, new age, neo-pagan [...]
A recent “cattle mutilation” report had the gang at Querencia turning to me, because evidently I am their go-to guy on weirdness. After a couple of weeks had passed, I cranked out a four-part blog post series at my other blog:Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. But I left something out: what [...]
I was walking around today in Manitou Springs, once a spa-resort town, located in the foothills west of Colorado Springs. You should know that there are no springs in Colorado Springs–real-estate developers lied in the 1870s too. The springs are in Manitou. But Colorado Springs has several important military installations: Fort Carson, NORAD, and so [...]
I opened the Cañon City Daily Record on Monday and learned that M. and I have been dining above the dead. One of our two favorite cafes in the nearby town of Florence, Colo., is the Aspen Leaf Bakery, which, it turns out, is the second-most haunted locale in that county. (The first is the [...]
