Reader photos: Fleeting winter brings strange-looking icicles and frost-covered plants

Parrish captured these strange icicles melting from their roof in Grand Lake. Wind, melting and re-freezing could all be credited for the strange shape of the icicles.
Georgette Parrish/Courtesy photo

Reader photos: Alpenglow illuminates Lake Granby

Reader Penny Rafferty Hamilton sent Sky-Hi News this photo March 16. “Alpenglow on the Continental Divide in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area above the southeast portion of Lake Granby is inspiring as the mountains soar a mile above the water,” she said.
Penny Rafferty Hamilton/Courtesy Photo

Reader photo: A puppy pirouette

Demandante captured Cooper the “crazy dancing puppy,” doing a shimmy above Innsbruck in Granby on March 17. The arrival of spring has everyone doing a happy dance.
Kerry Demandante/Courtesy photo

Reader photo: First day of spring brings blue skies, blue water

Julianne Eichler captured this peaceful scene of the Colorado River near Kremmling on the first day of spring, March 19.
Julianne Eichler/Courtesy photo

Reader photo: Bluebird day in Tabernash

A distant view of Winter Park from Tabernash on a bluebird day.
Julianne Eichler/Courtesy photo

Grand Kids Learning Center hosts ribbon cutting at the new Granby location

Executive director of Grand Kids Learning Center, Ashley Bobo, led the ribbon cutting at the new Grand Kids Learning Center in Granby. “We are so happy to have gotten here,” Bobo said.
Emily Gutierrez/Sky-Hi News
Since the closure of Little Sprouts Learning Center in October, the Grand Beginnings staff have been working on getting licensure, remodeling the building and hiring staff for classrooms. In the classrooms, children are learning and being prepared to enter kindergarten.
Emily Gutierrez/Sky-Hi News
Grand Kids staff spoke at the ribbon cutting and thanked all of their supporters in getting the childcare center open. The pictured banner also features a new logo which shows the center’s mission of expanding childcare across Grand County.
Emily Gutierrez/Sky-Hi News
As classrooms are opening, Ashley Bobo says that more families on wait lists will be getting calls about enrollment. While this location isn’t offering infant care yet, Bobo says that hopefully this year the Granby child care center will be able to offer infant care.
Emily Gutierrez/Sky-Hi News

Reader photo: Moose and calf hunker down in the snow

Photo: Skiing through Rocky Mountain National Park’s burn scar

Reader photos: Grand County gets an epic snow day!

Robert Shoop sent in this photo saying, “life imitating are, imitating life.” It was taken on the Fraser River Trail.
Robert Shoop/Courtesy photo
Video courtesy of Jeanne Jackson.
People weren’t the only ones enjoying the March 14 snow. Odin had a wonderful snow day, too.
Corrie Stokes/Courtesy photo

Grand History: Color lithograph of the Mountain Empire of the West map