By Dan Hicks Were the weather forecast favourable, this evening’s (September 13) harvest moon would present we Cranbrookers with a premier autumnal opportunity to toil…
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Waxing Crescent Moon marks countdown to Harvest Moon
By Dan Hicks The Sept. 1 waxing crescent moon marked a cosmic countdown as Luna steadily grows to become our September 13 Harvest Moon (22:33…
Stepping into a Golden sky
By Dan Hicks Mount 7 rises high in the Rockies southeast of Golden, its peak distinguished by a mega numerical “7” created by remnant summer…
Celebrating Cranbrook’s most ancient creatures
By Dan Hicks Hello sunny surface world – here I come! Eyes closed prior to its release, a western painted turtle hatchling (Chrysemys picta bellii)…
Woman Who Loves Giraffes a Rockies Film Fest gem
By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary Despite the super-exciting allure of Captain Marvel (PG) debuting at our local cinema, or repeat viewings of either Alita –…
A meditation on my telescopic night under the stars
By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary The Wycliffe Exhibition Grounds are notable for more than our annual Cranbrook Professional Rodeo alone. The Milky Way still graces…
Radiant Rockies vanquish valley gloom
By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary Despite a gloomy omnipresent mid-November afternoon overcast, the panoramic Steeples, pride of British Columbia’s southern Rockies, were sunlit along a…
Nature at our doorstep
By Dan Hicks Situated along the City of Cranbrook’s northeast boundary, the Cranbrook Community Forest offers Cranbrookers easy access to a natural world of woodlands, hills, ponds,…
Autumnal Full Moons
By Dan Hicks Our ashen Harvest Moon breaks free of horizonal cloud and ascends into a clear cool September night sky above Cranbrook; a welcome…
A foreshadowing of winter on Mount Broadwood
By Dan Hicks As September advanced, the warm days dwindled, and summer faded from the Rockies. On the east side of Mount Broadwood, beneath the…