This collection concentrates on essays and articles written for the North Forty News, Colorado Gardener magazine, and other Colorado regional publications, but the reader will also discover a bit of fiction and some excerpts from longer works. The book also contains over eighty illustrations, fifty-three in full color, created by the author. Enjoy the view from a mountaintop. Learn about the microbial conquest of Earth, and how flowering plants remade the world. Visit Pleistocene ghosts at large in the modern world and discover how to make postmodern decisions with prehistoric brains. Upon completing the book, the reader will be prepared to tell their child why plants are green and how to find blue dinosaurs in desert canyons.
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