She scrambled under my feet while doing a field check. She was the first Texas horned lizard I have seen on Conservation Reserve Program land here in Texas. What a special moment we shared. Her looking at me and me looking right back at her. She was extremely curious with her head tilts and eye…
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Flowers for Your Wednesday
Even with the lack of good consistent rains here on the Llano Estacado, the few drops to grace the land give rise to familiar friends. Their beauty is unmatched. All I can think about is how these wildflowers carpeted this land before the plows came. Their seeds remain. They show us that no matter what…
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Sense of Wonder – Where’s Yours?
On Saturday, I led a small group of Texas Master Naturalists on a seed collecting and nature outing at Tahoka Lake Pasture, in Lynn County, Texas. While the Master Naturalists program is a good program it lacks one major thing – actually connecting people to nature and their sense of wonder that nature can instill…
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The First
In the blink of my eyes, I saw her movement. She quickly scrambled into the yellow wildflowers avoiding the size 10 boot. Pausing to see her further movement she darted again this time circling back behind me. Crafty little super smart lizard. Yet, not smart enough to realize that with me stepping back my size 6…
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Forgotten Winds 