I was outside on our deck at sunrise in Colorado. An hour before, a meteorite streaked across the sky among the brilliant stars before they faded and disappeared. The morning star was still visible.

Snow geese fly above Freezout Lake in Choteau, Montana during their yearly migration north. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Leah Guttman, a Whitefish resident, holds a snow geese feather at Freezout ...