Steamboat Springs Here in our mountain valley, Mother Nature
supersedes the calendar, and clearly visible reasons explain why
Memorial Day marks the change in seasons. While some folks
identify this holiday with the beginning of summer, for us the
last Monday in May says springtime. Only a few weeks ago, mid-
May seemed like autumn. If there were no calendar and we had
newly arrived on the scene, we might have thought winter loomed
ahead, rather than behind us. Conversations around town centered
on a dreary outlook that questioned whether snow would cease to
fall and when winter would end. Old-timers, of course, knew, but
they only smiled and nodded their heads. New folks have to
figure these things out for themselves. We all eventually find
out that snow in the Yampa Valley can happen during any month of
the year, reminding us that we are not in charge of everything.
Civilizations of old discovered the Earth's rhythmic cycles
around the sun, and today, even though technology advises that
the month of May indi