Now more than 200,000 lost. We must have been able to do better than this.
“From Platte to Peak” has been well
received at Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center, and the recently
arrived new Director loves it unreservedly. RMSBA is invited to present future
exhibits at GofG. Yay, us! Here are some publicity moments you might
appreciate. Carol Till, our Prez, gets extra chops for getting’ up and out her
door in Wheat Ridge at 0250 hours (that’s 2:50 am) to get down to the exhibit
to appear on LIVE TV at 5 am, 5:30 am, 6 am, and 6:30 am on KOAA TV in Colorado
Springs.
https://www.facebook.com/GardenOfTheGods/posts/10158619321623781
The exhibit will remain at GofG through October, and then
will be moved to the Education Center at Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail,
where it will be on display through the end of the year, and perhaps later. We
are seeking other venues for 2021.
Proposals
for Future Projects are welcomed by the RMSBA Board of Directors.
Please send ideas to any Board member. We are not meeting in person at this
time, but we can get an email discussion going… let us know what you’ve got up
your sleeve.
Board Vacancy. Judy
Vanderbosch has decided to step down as Program Director. She may be going off
to retirementLand, and 2020 certainly was not kind to her, trashing out
programs right and left. So we are incredibly grateful for her work and efforts
over the last several years and will miss her terribly when she leaves the
area, but recognize that she hasn’t left yet. We encourage some inspired member
(maybe you!) to take her place in that position in RMSBA.
40th Anniversary of Botanical Illustration at Denver Botanic Gardens. The exhibit Garden and Haven is on display at the new classroom and herbaria building at DBG. Some of our members have work showing. Drop in and check it out. No in-person classes to make it easy and painless, so just drag yourself in there.
Preakness
Stakes. This Saturday will note the running of the Preakness
Thoroughbred horse race in Pimlico, MD, delayed since late May or early June.
Horses are lovely, jockey silks are colorful, motion is amazing. Watch, even if
all your Brown-eyed-Susans have gone to compost.
Peak-to-Peak Highway. Well, this may be the last weekend to get the total benefit of the Aspen turning from Peridot to Citrine. Last week was all about Guanella Pass and Kenosha Pass. Owl Creek Pass got passing mention on the News. Next week you’re gonna have to haul it down to Southern Colorado and catch it there.
Fire
Spell. In Estes Park (and RMNP) the smoke and ash from the
Cameron Peak fire in Larimer County and the Wendell [?] fire in Wyoming are
borne on the wind in incredible layered waves. The Sun is red in the West and
the rising full moon is tinged red in the East. It’s kind of hard to breathe,
and must be so for the elk and beaver and bird life. Great beauty and great
peril.
5 September – Scorch Today, Freeze after Labor Day
“From
Platte to Peak” is on
the walls at Garden of the Gods Visitor Center on September 2. Participation
was good: 39 works representing 28 species collected by Dr. Edwin James on the
1820 Stephen H. Long scientific expedition to the west. Thank you to all the
artists. Do drop in for a visit and see the exhibit. Do keep in mind if you
need your pain meds that Douglas and El Paso counties are Green Deserts…
