Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

The Colorado Sun reposted this piece by Jason Blevins in the Outsider newsletter: The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes  plans to return t...

The garden has been winterized and the bulbs are in the ground. A pretty good year for tomatoes and Purple Podded Pole Beans, which I keep g...

So this is Nebraska So this is Nebraska. A Sunday afternoon; July. Driving along with your hand out squeezing the air, a meadowlark waiting ...

A recommendation letter written on official stationery from United States Post-Office No. 18859, Mason, Ohio: July 27, 1914 To Whom It M...

I am a lineman for the county... In the late-60s, I loved that Jimmy Webb song, a chart-topper for Glen Campbell. It's a fine song. An...

I joined a million-plus people watching the eclipse in Wyoming on Aug. 21. I almost missed it. In 2015, when Casper began promoting Ecl...

What I'm looking forward to in 2016.... Retirement . On Jan. 15, I will work my last day at the Wyoming Arts Council in Cheyenne. I wa...

Gas prices are lower and expected to go even lower. We may be in for $2.50 gas prices in early 2015. Yellowstone had a record 4 million vi...

At Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site: Mike Shay and Brian and Eileen Casey. Thousands of wagons passed this way during the heyday of t...

Hanging out at Esther Hobart Morris's statue at the Wyoming State Capitol with Brian and Eileen Casey. My sister Eileen and her hus...

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That expression shows more wishful thinking than reality. In Wyoming, March comes in li...

A week ago today, I sat in my Ford staring out at the frozen tundra of Carbon County. I was about ten feet off of Hwy. 287, rear end facing ...

Stuck inside of Rawlins With those Cheyenne blues again. Don't you just love winter driving in WYO? Since I just came from a liter...

One of the constants of winter driving in Wyoming: Elk Mountain. That's all you have to say. Elk Mountain.  When I arrived in Ro...

Paddle out for my brother Dan in Ormond Beach, Fla. Photo by Marcus Stephen.   Hundreds of people gathered at the Salty Church Nov. 23 i...