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After the storm
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 …
Christopher Brown
Feb 28
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Cold Load
A report from the Ercotastrophe zone
Christopher Brown
Feb 21
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A Valentine's greeting from Planet Herschel
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…
Christopher Brown
Feb 14
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Winter of the Storage Locker Patriarchs
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, …
Christopher Brown
Feb 7
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Roadside picnics
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…
Christopher Brown
Jan 31
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Bunker herons and Okie noodlers
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…
Christopher Brown
Jan 24
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Snow day sigils
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…
Christopher Brown
Jan 17
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Midwinter in the Tropic of Kansas
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…
Christopher Brown
Jan 10
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New Year's in the field
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…
Christopher Brown
Jan 3
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A winter offering to the Texas Druid Queen
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…
Christopher Brown
Dec 27, 2020
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Lost in America
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 …
Christopher Brown
Dec 20, 2020
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Killer ladybugs and drowned monuments
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…
Christopher Brown
Dec 13, 2020
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