The super moon at moonrise Saturday.

Connor Meredith heats up a dragon fly he is making in the blacksmith shop at Cross Orchards.

Bryce Keever, 13, gives his sister Tori and Hayden Grethel a thrill on a long board on the sidewalk around the playground at Lincoln Park.

Cinco de Mayo celebrations in downtown Grand Junction and Lincoln Park .

Cinco de Mayo celebrations in downtown Grand Junction and Lincoln Park .

Mark Esper runs the show at the Silverton Standard and the Miner.

Angel Drayer, a volunteer at the Cross Orchards Historic Site, spins some wool yarn during the Spring Day at the Farm.

A small wasp scours the top of a large yucca plant in Grand Junction. The wasp was less than half inch in length and appeared to be eating.

Karen and Dan Brownlee prayed Thursday morning outside the Mesa County Courthouse while participating in the National Day of Prayer. This is the sixth year Grand Junction has observed this national event.

Surounded by the Single Track Sisters on bikes, Rob Bleiberg and daughter Mandala, Libby Collins, in orange, Bill Prakken and hsi grandson Max Pittman, in blue, pose at the start of the lunch loop trail system while celebrating the fundraising success for the expansion of the system around the Three Sisters area.

Blacks bows are tied on light posts along the historical section of 7th Street in honor of Kathy Jordan.

Ben Hegwer, a water coordinator for Encana USA, shows before (left) and after samples of water cleaned at a centralized treatment facility near Rifle after being brought up from natural gas wells. The treated water is recycled for use in hydraulically fracturing other wells.

Board members released white doves Wednesday afternoon in celebration of opening The House, a shelter for homeless teens.

Construction workers with Sunsense Solar install solar panels on top of the Aspinall Federal Building in Grand Junction.

Nine-year-old Allissa Ashby from Grand Junction takes part in one of the races during the Colorado Special Olympics Game at Stocker Stadium Tuesday.

Meg Bryan, left is signing up to vote with the help of Rick Bear at Obama for America booth during the Occupy Mayday celebration in Lincoln Park Tuesday afternoon (05/01/12).

The Special Olympics torch burned Tuesday morning while the crowd saluted the flag prior to the kick-off of the annual Special Olympics Track and Field Meet at Stocker Stadium.

Robert Dwain Dewey walks from District Court between his lawyers Monday, a free man after being exonerated in the brutal slaying of 19-year-old Jacie Taylor in Palisade in June 1994. Danyel Joffe, left, a Denver lawyer, worked for more than 10 years on the case of Dewey, who had maintained his innocence in Taylor’s death. Joffe was supported by the New York Innocence Project. Also shown is Jason Kreag, a lawyer with the New York Innocence Project.

Robert Dewey hugs his girlfriend, Angela Brandenberg after being released for jail at the Mesa County Justice Center.

A rock art panel in Sego Canyon, Utah looks like a Man from Mars.The historic rock in this canyon dates back to 7000 BC to 1600 AD.

A red cloud of dust rises in canyon along 4.10 Road in Utah, just across the Colorado Utah state line, north west of Gateway Saturday afternoon (4/28/12), during a rockslide on the canyons north rim. A section of the red rock canyon wall fell, casting rocks down to the Dolores River.

Children with the River Canyon School wind ribbons around a maypole as they sing and dance during the school’s Mayfaire Festival at Sherwood Park on Saturday. The event, which was a fundraiser for the school, also featured a petting pen with animals, crafts for kids and a silent auction. The school teaches one grade, a kindergarten for children ages 3 to 7.

Along with about three dozen others, Tanner Mast, right, and Kyra Newhouse sink screws into the new planks while Ashley Baker, left, paints the lumber’s backside as teens from the First Presbyterian Church’s youth group build a new fence Sunday in the backyard of The House, a new teen shelter

Retired teachers and best friends Carolyn Burger, left, and Kathleen Pilkenton pin quilt squares as they get ready to stitch them together in the fellowship hall at First Presbyterian Church as part of their participation in this weekend’s ShareFest, an annual nondenominational community-wide volunteer event by members of various churches.

Susan Webster watches as her son Will Powell, 5, shakes away the dirt in search of bits of skeletal remains of the fossilized ancient fish Xiphactinus in the Mancos shale below the family’s K 3/4 Road home.

ReBecca Hunt-Foster, paleontology collections manager for the Museum of Western Colorado, holds two pieces of shale, one containing a large fossilized scale and the other a small scale from the Xiphactinus site.

Dick Pettit from Castle Rock, one of 28 vendors at the Western Slope Coin Show at the Lincoln Park Barn holds a 1929 $10 bill minted at the First National Bank of Fruita.

Kenneth Brown, manager of Colorado operations for Shell Exploration and Production, looks over a test site at the Mahogany Research project in the Piceance Basin in 2005.

Construction workers laid off in the Colony Project shutdown during the 1982 Black Sunday oil shale bust, look at the layoff notices and final paychecks. More than 2,000 people lost their jobs at the oil shale project. Thousands more in support businesses were laid off. Photo Courtesy of Museum of Western Colorado/ Daily Sentinel Collection