Jonna Gjevre's Commonplace Book
Posted in Nature on Jan 22nd, 2010
When I got back to Wisconsin, after seven months in Colorado, the St. Croix Tree Service was there to take down my last elm.
The old elm is right next to my garage, its huge canopy of branches overhanging the neighbor’s house. Not an easy job. So they brought in a four-man crew, cleared the snow, [...]
Posted in Nature on Jan 1st, 2010
On Christmas morning, a fox came into our yard.
It circled under the apricot tree…
…then settled down to rest.
Posted in Nature on Oct 9th, 2009
Last week we went seeking the great aspen clones at Kenosha Pass.
We arrived too late in the season to see the autumn colors at their height. But it was a beautiful day, and the sun was shining.
So we shouldered our backpacks and stepped onto the Colorado Trail, heading for the Continental Divide.
Posted in Nature on Sep 21st, 2009
A recent hike in the mountains gave us a chance to see aspen turning gold. We began at Bear Lake, where yellow leaves mingled with orange:
Then we hiked up to Nymph Lake, which had more lilies than aspen. Pretty, nonetheless!
The path overlooking Glacier Creek seemed a bit foggy and foreboding…
But we arrived at Lake Haiyaha [...]
Rocky Mountain National Park is a great place to hear the autumn Elk Bugle. The eerie, high-pitched calls of bull elk really do sound like bugles.
We watched, fascinated, as the bulls herded the females and bullied each other.
By dusk, the moraine king had gathered over twenty females into his harem and had driven the other [...]