Iguanas and Jurassic Park in the Rolling Plains of Texas? What’s that? Here’s your chance to meet both all in one. This famed iguana and little dinosaur, the Eastern Collared Lizard. This lizard is a member of the iguana family. Plus, you can say they are little dinosaurs because they can run up to fifteen…
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There are moments that I’ve longed for. Many of those moments I’ve not had yet and still desire to have. Some moments I’ve already had. This was one of those moments. What was it? Finally, photographing a painted bunting like this… Painted buntings became one of my favorite birds when I was at Welder Wildlife…
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William Blake was right – you can see heaven in a wildflower. While I really do not like the color pink – this is near perfection and apparently is a rare sighting. While genetics causes this mutation there is a Texas legend about pink bluebonnets. Here is the story by Greg Grant. A number of…
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The first Texas native wildflower that became ingrained in my memory while working on saving a historic Texas ranch headquarters was a little purple, aster flower. Often it was a single stem flower and sometimes it grew in massive patches. Its growth pattern was correlated with annual rainfall amounts. The purple aster flower in…
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Forgotten Winds 