Barack Obama (actually a manequin left over from a Mudd Butts play) made an appearence in Telluride’s Halloween parade on Friday. Reaction was favorable.
October 31 to November 7, 2008 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, SaturnEvening: Venus and Jupiter Outside, raking leaves, I am stunned by the magnificence of the day. Deep blue, cerulean skies, warm-hot sun and air so fresh, it sparkles. But then, it’s the legendary season of Indian Summer in Colorado, when natural law defies gravity and…
Tim McGough took some time out of a crowded schedule to talk to me last week. Tim is the new program director at Telluride Adaptive Sports Program, and is very busy getting up to speed in this new position. There is training to schedule for the instructors and volunteers, returning and new, for the upcoming…
Autumn, Rudy’s Trail “Where will you spend the night?” Rico was concerned because I was getting a late start. It had snowed the night before in Aspen, and because I was traveling on a motorcycle I had delayed my departure for the Canyonlands until the roads cleared a little. “Oh, I guess I’ll stop…
To Fall Deeper in Love with the World Sit with lichen longer than comfort allows. The urge to move must rise and pass, rise and pass, must pass. One waits with expectation as if desiring a gift. Frustration breeds. Sit. Sun. Rain. Snow. Until little by little the wanting…
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Spring:Come Closer Eager to play, spring bumbles inlike a dizzy beedazed by yellow exuberancewondering which tree, which stem,which blade of new grass to next visit.Whirrrrr-whoosh hustles in the first hummingbird,whip-stridently flirting with petal-some red,sweet hussy of fling,flippant rush of a thing,yes! then tides of wings gatherto jostle for nectar,warm air wears…
Telluride Inside… and Out is proud to have Rosemerry on board as one of our regular contributors. For those of you who don’t know her (where have you been?), here is Rosemerry’s bio: Poet and organic fruit grower Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado, where she serves as Poet Laureate of San Miguel County….
AlacazemBy Cynthia Hansen ZehmOctober 23 to 30, 2008 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury and SaturnEvening: Mars and JupiterAs October draws to a close, we walk on fallen leaves and watch them swirl as winds whip and the air grows colder. Some gather firewood for winter, kindle fires and indulge in the cozy warmth of flickering flames…
Meredith Nemirov has always painted her mind, and she is known for saying a mouthful in a few strokes – or words. “To stand and face a whole landscape, to paint ‘en plein air’ and make a painting capturing the scene on a two-dimensional surface in a relatively short period of time is rigorous, but…
Valerie Madonia The notion of dance in Telluride was not new before Valerie Madonia arrived on the scene. In the 1970s, Jeri McAndrews, a New York transplant and modern dancer, settled in town and taught modern, jazz, and ballet in what is now the Elementary School cafeteria. In 1978, McAndrews also founded the…