PICNICKER’S PICK
Sweet Pea Market
735 Yampa St., Steamboat Springs, 970-879-1221
Made famous by the Rainbow People Dumpster- diving case last summer, Sweet Pea is beloved today for the fresh and mostly organic products it sells to Steamboat Springs locals and travelers. Stop by to lay in a supply of picnic goods. Pick from a line of pickled peppers, garlic, beets, asparagus and beans, jams and produce sourced from Palisade, Euro-style bread from Frederick and then, perhaps, serve it alongside cuts of organic Colorado buffalo or chicken or Wyoming beef.
BIRD OF TWO FEATHERS
White-tailed Ptarmigan: Ghosts of the Alpine Tundra
Johnson Books, $20
Joyce Gellhorn’s new book may be your only chance to see a white-tailed ptarmigan, because these high-altitude birds are masters of disguise, blending into the rocky tundra landscape in summer and then switching to snow-white plumage in winter. Gellhorn and photographer Calvin Whitehall captured the birds in all seasons, using them to highlight the fragile ecology of the high Rocky Mountains.
A DANCE WITH ROOTS
Plains Indians
Singers & Dancers
Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont
Each dance and song of the Plains Indians has deep meaning. You can learn a lot about many of them from performers led by Kiowa Elder John Emhoolah in a free concert Wednesday at 7 p.m. on the museum lawn. BYO chair and picnic.
