Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com “Wish I’d lived 100 years ago,” I used to say. Until I hit my fifties, that is, when it became “Wish I’d lived 150 years ago.” Despite being a Net junkie, […]
by Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com With a lifetime of gardening under my belt, I think I can safely say that I have a not-bad green thumb when it comes to outdoor plants. Oh, sure, I’ve […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com We’ve been listening to a lot of music we haven’t heard in years, thanks to Pandora. Some we love. Some we don’t, yet we sing along because the lyrics are still embedded […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com “She can bake a cherry pie, in the twinkling of an eye”—that was my mother, 60 years ago. She’d take the sour cherries I’d picked from our own tree (Pennsylvania, not Colorado), […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com I can always tell when I’ve been whining too much about the weather at our place in the high foothills. That’s when a friend from the lowlands reins me in with the […]
Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com Forget the first robin—in the foothills and mountains of northern Colorado, pasqueflowers are the harbinger of spring. “Pasques” are among the very first wildflowers to bloom. And competition to find the first one […]
by Sally Roth sroth@northfortynews.com No house (English) sparrows. No starlings. Up here at 8100’ in north-central Larimer County, where deep snow, bitter cold, and miles of pines and spruces reign, we never see a one […]
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