Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

Smoke on the water  Fire in the sky  Thought about those Deep Purple lyrics yesterday evening as I surveyed the pall of gray-brown smoke lur...

Over my second cup of coffee on this beautiful Wyoming Saturday, I wondered why I still had the Weather Channel blaring from my Smart TV. ...

Wyoming writer Laura Pritchett surveyed the Colorado floods as a passenger in a small plane. Her article appeared today on OnEarth . Also on...

From ThinkProgress : When the Senate passed the  long-delayed   $50.5 billion Hurricane Sandy relief  package Monday,  36 Republicans  vo...

Columnist Eugene Robinson explores Mitt Romney's stance on disaster response. Let's privatize it! Tell that to the folks in New Jers...

The Bas Bleu Theatre Company in Fort Collins is only one of many arts organizations coming up with ways to support local firefighters who ha...

From  Clay Paper Scissors Gallery & Studios  in Cheyenne (via Wyomingarts blog):   Clay Paper Scissors has a lot going on this De...

File under "That Darn Federal Gubment:" President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Wyoming because of spring and su...

On Monday, I was musing about my garden and telling you folks out home about my wonderful high plains strawberries. I ended the post with t...

A year after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, caused by corporate negligence, we have a similar spill on the high prairie just north of the Wyo...

It took a few days for the Exxon-Mobil oil pipeline spill to show up in mainstream media. But Montana bloggers were on the story from the ...

Tonight, Wyomingites along creeks and rivers in Crook, Carbon, Albany, Lincoln and Sheridan counties are thanking their lucky stars and Gov....

Started the day with the "Big Steaming News Dump" with Lizz Winstead and friends. The Netroots Nation alternative to “Morning Joe...

Floods in Basin along the Big Horn River. Saratoga swamped by the North Platte. Creeks creeping toward flood stage in Sheridan and Johnson c...

DAN CEPEDA Star-Tribune:    Vicky Marlow takes snapshots of the swollen North Platte River near the whitewater park in Casper on Friday af...

Joplin, Missouri, is about the same size as Cheyenne, Wyoming. If a tornado wiped out one-third of Cheyenne and killed 132 residents, we w...

This announcement comes from the online newsletter from my old church -- the 10:30 Catholic Community/Capitol Heights Presbyterian in Denver...

Sometimes life dishes up some ironies that you have to share. Colorado Media Matters blog reports that former FEMA Director Michael Brown (...

"A Snowmobile for George" is a new election-year documentary. Here's a description from the film's web site: When Preside...