One of the great things about life in NoCo is our five distinct seasons. Summer, autumn, winter, spring and windy. The windy season bridges the gap between winter and spring, starting in mid-February and often continuing through late April. I’m no climatologist, but I am a Coloradan, and windy is just as predictable as her four, more popular and pretty sisters.
I adore NoCo springs, relish our summers, revel in the beauty of our autumns and (despite my aversion to the cold) can appreciate Colorado’s majestic winters. But let’s face it; windy stinks. I’ve yet to meet a person who likes this season. It makes the cold colder, messes up what little hair I have left and blows away my trash cart on trash day. Windy is required to offer her most severe punishment on trash days.
In Colorado, I find the wind good in only two occasions; for delivering a return on investment at Xcel’s wind farms and for flying a kite. Since I’m not an Xcel customer, my only breeze-induced joy comes from the latter. So that’s why NoCo50 Challenge No. 16 was to go fly a kite.
In the absence of wind, Jack James provides his own power at Sunday's Kites in the Park.
