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Saturday morning was getting its Gerhard Richter on when baby and I walked down to the river after daybreak, a thick fog telegraphing a warm and muggy …
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Feb 28Comment 1Share
A report from the Ercotastrophe zone
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Feb 21Comment 4Share
Thursday before last the toddler and I went for a walk in the woods at dusk. She is becoming more alert to the sights and sounds in the woods, learning…
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Feb 14CommentShare
I spotted the first spiderwort flowers of the season Thursday morning, in the scruffy right of way behind the old neon plant. Just two early blossoms, …
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Feb 7Comment 2Share
Thursday morning when we got back from walking the dogs down past the gas tank yards and back, we came upon a bird I have never seen, flitting around a…
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Jan 31Comment 1Share
Saturday morning baby and I walked the dogs down into the floodplain and along the river. She’s learning more and more about the local wildlife, and ge…
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Jan 24Comment 9Share
It snowed here in Austin last Sunday, something that only happens every few years, and rarely with enough powder to stick. Usually when it does snow th…
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Jan 17Comment 2Share
When we set out from Wichita the morning after Boxing Day, the sky was full of drones and geese. Just one drone that we saw, a little one taking off fr…
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Jan 10Comment 6Share
I am on break this week celebrating the end of 2020 with family, and getting ourselves re-acquainted with what real winter is like. I’ll be back next S…
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Jan 3CommentShare
It was hazy Monday night, but when we stepped out to stare at the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn there in the southwestern sky, the thin clouds had op…
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Dec 27, 2020Comment 9Share
Thursday brought the second genuinely cold morning of what passes for winter in the green heart of Texas, the dormant prairie grasses covered in frost …
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Dec 20, 2020Comment 2Share
Red-shouldered hawk, Thursday afternoon behind the door factory Sunday morning we walked up to the old bridge to give baby a look at the wild world fro…
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Dec 13, 2020Comment 5Share
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