Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Wildlife – April 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
ONE OF THE LOVELIEST, if not most vocal, harbingers of spring in the high country is the Mountain Bluebird. Every year I marvel when I see the first flitting scrap of brilliant blue flying from fence post to fence post along our county road, or spot one of these tiny announcers of warmer weather perched atop a small pine like an electric blue Christmas ornament.
Poem by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Personal – December 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
Until I Run Out of Thread
Like an old coat
I’ve outgrown you
stretched in a different direction
Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Roadside Attractions – July 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
YEARS AGO BUFFALO ROAMED HERE, and Ute Indians hunted along the pine-timbered ridges and grassy bottoms of the South Fork of the South Platte River. When the homesteaders and ranchers arrived in South Park this was the domain of the Harringtons, the 63 Ranch, and Tom McQuaid’s Salt Works Ranch; cattle replaced the buffalo, and cowboys rode the rocky hills.
Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Local Attractions – January 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine –
“Sunshine and shadow
aspen and pine
just for an hour
these woods are mine. . .”
Article by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Rodeo – August 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
People driving through Jefferson — a small settlement on U.S. 285 in South Park which consists of a post office and general store, a few houses, and an abandoned railroad depot restored into an abandoned real estate office — can’t help but notice the sign on the east side of the settlement: “Jefferson, Colorado. Home of Ginger Greene. Miss Rodeo Colorado 1991”.
Review by Laurie Wagner Buyer
Local Poet – June 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
Write Tough!
by Peggy Godfrey
published in 1996 by MediaChaos
ISBN 0-9644375-2-X