Cooking with insects
Curious as to how Tempura Battered Mealworms or Scorpion Scaloppine taste? Find out on Saturday, April 10, when the “Martha Stewart” of insect cuisine, Chef David George Gordon, appears live…
Siberian Forget-Me-Not
An outstanding treasure of the plant world that few know about is Brunnera macrophylla. This azure blue flowered plant is one representative of Forget-Me-Not hence the common name Siberian Forget-Me-Not.
Summer roses — Autumn hips
If you are looking for an outstanding xeric shrub that will provide year-round interest and require very little effort, look no further. Redleaf Rose (Rosa glauca) is an exceptionally hardy…
Osteospermums & Diascia – great choices for now
Osteospermum or Diascia… wow –names like this sound like a foreign language lesson! These two actually are from another country – South Africa to be exact – but, surprisingly, are…
The Aakash Mittal Quartet: A musical journey to India
By Dani White Berthoud Recorder There is a bold new kind of music emerging in Colorado. The Aakash Mittal Quartet, influenced by the muse of modern day India where customary…
Roberts stars in ‘Haunting of Winchester House’
Berthoud to Burbank shuffle worthwhile for high school freshman By Gerri Roberts Berthoud Recorder Recently on DVD at Blockbuster’s, an indie ghost story — “Haunting of Winchester House” — was…
Gassner glows as Frenchy in ‘Grease’
Briana Gassner, a 2002 graduate of Berthoud High School, is currently performing the role of Frenchy in “Grease” at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. The…
Preserving a Paleontologic Treasure Chest
Aug. 20, 2009, was the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, a site maintained by the National Park Service for the preservation of spectacular plant…
Our Natural World: Colorado’s Oldest Living Residents
The oldest bristlecone pine in our state lives on Mount Evans and is reported to be at least 2,435 years old, based on its number of annual tree rings sampled…
Dinosaurs and Other Colorado Fossils
As dinosaur lovers of all ages in our state know, the Colorado State Fossil is the stegosaur (Stegosaurus stenops). This familiar herbivorous dinosaur with rows of plates along its back…