All In the News posts

It’s a Christmas (card) mystery! A woman in Nebraska just received a Christmas card that was mailed in 1914.

And I thought I was late getting my cards out…

OBERLIN, Kansas (AP) — A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.

The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.

It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said.

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If you’re looking for a reason to get outside tonight, the Geminids meteor shower will be at its peak for viewing — and it’s going to be brilliant. According to astronomers…

“If you have not seen a mighty Geminid fireball arcing gracefully across an expanse of sky, then you have not seen a meteor.”

Gene Gardner, of the Smithsonian Institution’s Whipple Observatory, tells us that “on Thursday, December 13th, the meteor shower can be viewed as early as 8 - 10pm local time with the best viewing around 2am (on the 14th)”. The moon is in its new phase this year, making the 2007 Geminids shower appear exceptionally bright.

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If you’d like to take a special vacation this winter, consider heading south to Mexico. But not for the white sand beaches… for the butterflies. Millions of monarch butterflies have made their annual migration to the mountains of Mexico and you have until March to catch them in all of their glory.

Estimates put the number of monarchs at 4 million per acre in some of the butterfly reserves. Can you imagine?

“I have on many occasions seen Spaniards, Italians, Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans come into the butterfly colonies and literally weep,” said Lincoln Brower, a monarch expert at the University of Florida. “It’s such an overwhelming emotional experience to realize that you’re actually looking at these tens of millions of monarch butterflies that have come into this tiny, little area of Mexico.”

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Imagine waking up one morning to find a tiny coyote pup on your doorstep. Would you keep it? Shreve Stockton did…

The Daily Coyote is a blog all about life with Charlie the coyote in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming. Stockton was on a cross-country trip from San Fran to NYC on her Vespa when she rode through, and fell in love with, the Cowboy State. She decided to move there and shortly after doing so, she got a little surprise — a ten-day old coyote pup whose parents had been shot for killing sheep. Knowing she was his only chance at survival, she decided to raise it. Stockton posts photos of Charlie regularly at The Daily Coyote. He’s pretty adorable — so adorable, in fact, that you may leave the site wanting a coyote of your own. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

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Colorado ski resorts are getting hit with a major winter storm. And you know what that means… powder weekend!

Mountain areas along the Interstate 70 corridor west of Frisco (including Vail and Avon) and high country locations north of I-70 to the Wyoming state line (including Steamboat Springs) can expect 12 to 18 inches of snow accumulation.
Mountain areas south of Interstate 70 in western Colorado (including Aspen and Telluride) can expect two to three feet of total accumulation.

It’s on. Even Santa’s coming to town (he’s been warming up in Whistler)…