Out Our Way : This little light

Out our way, the weather can change quickly. Strong winds blow in a foot of snow knocking out power and tearing cottonwoods to pieces — and a week later a chinook comes in and begins to melt the damage. One of the advantages of the Hi-Line is that winter usually comes in sections, a blizzard and a chinook or at least a thaw — and then another blizzard. Sometimes we get the same type of winter as they get back East, where the snow begins to fall in October and stays on the ground until May. But mostly we get a series of mini-winters and min-springs.

Another thing I noticed over the year...