Weather Imagery

Colorado has the most screwed up water rights laws of any state in the Union. Some call them unique, I call them inadequate and based on a concept of when the state was young and had relatively few inhabitants. The process of acquiring water rights is very expensive, complicated, inefficient and bureaucratic. Colorado water officials have already put too many straws into the glass of coke and not everyone is getting anything to drink. This will get worse unless things change. OK … so, what’s this have to do with rainwater harvesting and collection?

Up Cheyenne Mountain road in the Rocky Mountains, a stream weaves its way down to the prairie below.

We decided to turn a nice summer day into a picnic along the water and just up the road was Helen Falls.

Auntie Chelsea found some cool caterpillars at her house and decided to bring them over. Jacob wanted to put them on the Aspen trees in front of our house.

A small rock Jacob wanted to climb all by himself.