Two new members have joined RMOWP’s ranks: Buddy Green from Wyoming and Janis Lindsey Huggins from Colorado. We welcome them!
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It Depends on Your Point of View
Text and photo by Virginia Parker Staat
“Reality simply consists of different points of view.”
~ Margaret Atwood
It seemed like a good idea at the time. It’s wildflower season here in Texas, and each spring David and I take a trip to the Hill Country to find and photograph as many bluebonnet fields as we can. Because we store our truck camper at a friend’s farm in East Texas, it takes a day to pick it up and another to take it back. We were short on time this year, so we decided to tent camp instead.
Continue reading It Depends on Your Point of View10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6…
By Virginia Parker Staat
The countdown has begun! In less than eight weeks, RMOWP’s annual conference begins in beautiful Golden, Colorado, on June 26. To date, twenty members have already registered.
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Click here to view or download the May-June 2022 issue of Rocky Mountain Outdoors. It’s the last one before our conference in Golden, Colorado in June.
Huggins, Janis Lindsey
An editor, self-published author, and retired photographer and lecturer, Janis has also been a naturalist guide for Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and a field botanist at Colorado State University in the Colorado Natural Heritage Program. Visit her website www.highcountrywild.com to learn more.
News from Member Michael Salomone
Vail, Colorado, member Michael Salomone has been busy. Among his projects were as a guest on an Upland Nation podcast with Scott Linden, where he talked about hunting “Blue” Grouse as well as a recent writing award he received for his Upland Almanac magazine article on Blues published last November. See www.uplandnation.com/e/bird-hunting-advice-from-a-fly-fishing-guide-who-knows-blue-grouse-tips-why-we-hunt-win-a-vest/
Continue reading News from Member Michael SalomoneWhat’s Up in that Tree?
Text and photo by Steve Cochrane
Who knew porcupines climbed trees? This is the normal response when I take clients to view and photograph porcupines.
Continue reading What’s Up in that Tree?Friends, Family and the Open Road
By Virginia Parker Staat
As I write this, I’m sitting under a canopy of pines near Athens, Georgia. Yellow daffodils and the redbud trees are beginning to bloom. David and I are on our first camping trip with our new Golden Retriever pup, Samantha. Tomorrow we visit our granddaughter who studies at the University of Georgia. Then we turn south to visit our 16- and 12-year-old grandkids. We haven’t seen them since the spring before all the lockdowns began… nearly three years ago. I’m bracing myself for how much they have grown.
Continue reading Friends, Family and the Open RoadIt Depends on Your Point of View
By Virginia Parker Staat
“Reality simply consists of different points of view.”
~ Margaret Atwood
Before writing any story, we must choose our narrator’s position to describe events and opinions. Then we must stick to it. This position is called point of view (POV). It is an important discipline in our writing because readers become confused when writers head hop from one character to another, particularly within the same paragraph. Point of view is about creating intimacy between our reader and our subject.
Continue reading It Depends on Your Point of ViewTundra Travels on Mount Evans
Text and photos by Jack Olson
(Reprinted by permission of the author from the Sep-Oct 2012 newsletter.)
Looming about fifty miles west of Denver, Mount Evans is one of the most spectacular and diverse natural locations anywhere in the West and so close to a major metropolitan area. There is an unmatched combination of wildlife, highest altitude trees, wildflowers galore, endless tundra, a frigid lake, jagged rock formations and cliffs, and a view to take your breath away. Literally.
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