Author: Steve

  On Flagstaff Mountain trails.                  

  Granddaughter Taylor volunteers at the raptor rehab center in Fort Collins.  On Saturday we went to see her at the raptor booth for the Boulder Creek Festival.   She was handling a rough-legged hawk.     There was a swainson’s there too.   And a little long-eared owl in a box!     The raptor center rehabilitates and releases birds back into the wild.  These birds on display have enough issues that they are not suitable for release, so they focus on education with them.  

    Origami cranes.   It’s an art project.  Homeschool high school.   It involves a thousand cranes.  I don’t think they’ve all been folded and hung yet.  

  Here is what I do like.   What is your opinion of drag queens around children? I’m against drag queens being exposed to children. A lot could go wrong.   Nails could be broken, wigs pulled off, someone could get knocked off her heels. Children are wild, irrational, and unpredictable, and their characters are still in the formative stages. Someone fabulous could get hurt.     And the blackbird persists.    

  Today it was a juvenile in the eagle tree.