HI!
Spring is truly underway. The rivers are running high with lots of mud in them from the rains and the snow melt, there are thunderstorms almost daily in the afternoons, and we've had several bouts of hail and more than 20 tornadoes / funnel clouds touch down in May and early June.
As an aside, Arapahoe Basin ski area is still open, and hopes to be open until July 4th weekend. Haven't seen skiable snow that late in the year here for decades and, in my experience, since I skied the permanent snowfields at Palmer on Mount Hood in Oregon. To say it's a good snow and water year for Colorado is an understatement.
There's another indication of Spring and early Summer. The bears come out, move to lower altitudes and start intersecting with the human populations along and in the Rampart Range. Here are pictures of a reader board at the entrance to Roxborough Park ..... and anecdotally, our neighbors tell us that someone they knew sighted a female and her two cubs foraging along the foothills in her backyard. We back up to the Pike National Forest, so we see and hear tales of Fox, Bear, Mountain Lion ....... and the deer are so plentiful and unafraid that they'll let you approach to within 5 feet and the humans complain loudly about them as "pests."
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