When I heard a distant bird song about 500 yards away, I knew immediately I never heard it before. The sound I was hearing I later learned was a distinct dick-dick-ceessa-ceessa. The bird kept repeating its song over and over on a moderately cool morning in the Rolling Plains of Foard County. My eyes followed…
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Scurrying across the dry, crunchy landscape was this small Texas horned lizard. We desperately need rain. Literally, had a convo with him to spread the word to all his cousins to stay off the highways.
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Just pointing this out here at the beginning – without seeds we would not have some of the clothes we wear, we would not have fruits and vegetables, nor would we have beauty to look upon through wildflowers. Some trees we would not have to offer us shade on hot days if it were…
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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 