Showing posts with label fires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fires. Show all posts
Saturday, July 19, 2025

LOST IN GRAND CANYON’S WOUNDS

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by Dick Altman   Molas Pass, Southern Colorado I’m hiking  where eagles soar, eleven thousand two hundred feet above sea level. Summer, and ...
Monday, January 20, 2025

GENESIS 2025

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by Michael Dorian Source: Seattle Times In the beginning He pardoned all the seditionists. Now the nation was barren and shapeless, darknes...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

HOW TO SURVIVE AN ELECTION

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by Steve Zeitlin Smokejumper My cousin Rod McIver—smoke jumper— parachuted into Missouri wildfires became famous for escaping the great Mont...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

A REQUEST TO THE STATE

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by David Chorlton Aaron Gunches is not going to get his wish to be executed on Valentine’s Day.  In an order Jan. 8, the Arizona Supreme Cou...
Friday, July 26, 2024

CARCASS

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by  Melanie DuBose World’s Rarest Whale Washes Up on New Zealand Beach, Scientists Say: Only six specimens of the spade-toothed whale have e...
Friday, August 25, 2023

SILENCE AFTER THE MAUI FIRE

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by  Christian Hanz Lozada I deconstruct the “Santa’s Village”  Lego  set and the house has been quiet all day   while Hawaiian Uncle with st...
Friday, June 09, 2023

HAIKU

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by Brian Dolan Photo: Smoke billows upwards from a planned ignition by firefighters who were tackling the Donnie Creek Complex wildfire sout...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

EARTHLINGS

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by Peter Witt If earth was my father, he’d sit me down for the talk, about how the birds and bees are under threat, how humankind has pollut...
Monday, July 25, 2022

I DREAMED LAST NIGHT

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by Gordon Gilbert I dreamed last night of seasons of unrest that lie ahead: Saddled on nightmare steeds with fiery nostrils, eyes of cold bl...
Friday, July 22, 2022

WHEN THE AIR COULDN'T HOLD

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by Dick Altman Four killed in helicopter crash after assisting with East Mesa Fire  — Santa Fe New Mexican , July 17, 2022 Northern New Mexi...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

UNNATURAL DISASTER

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by Dick Altman The U.S. Forest Service failed to consider how a changing climate could make the landscape more flammable, didn’t adequately ...
Monday, August 09, 2021

GOODNIGHT EARTH

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a cautionary tale, a cry from the heart, by Buff Whitman-Bradley after Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown “Goodbye Earth” by Satovi at D...