Wildlife Wednesday Smiles – Porcupine

From 2015 to 2022, I captured over 600,000 camera traps, as well as photographic field images at 3 Rivers Foundation in Foard County, Texas. Over 500 species were identified from plants to birds to amphibians to mammals to insects. From 2017 to 2022 I shared Wildlife Wednesday posts to educate and simply share the joy…

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Meet the Flower That Only Lives 24 Hours

When I learn something new about a plant it makes seeing them the next time even more impressive. Hartweg Evening Primrose or Hartweg Sundrops (Calylophus hartwegii) greets the world in the evening, stays up all night, and then by the evening of the next day it is spent. After it is done for the blooms…

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A November Beaver Pond Reset

The November evening at the Beaver Pond greeted us like a welcomed kiss on our cheeks. The warmth was unusual for this November. We arrived as the sun was beginning to set. Reflections of the juniper trees were casting their shadows on the edges of the pond as if they were looking in a mirror…

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When a Plant Causes You to Yell

  When I see a plant that I cannot immediately ID I label the photo with UK or Unknown with the date. Often, I go back to identify it by proper common and scientific names. Then there are times I don’t get back to identifying the plant in the file because that’s how life goes.…

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