State of Wilderness

Month: January 2012

  • Houston Audobon Society: Edith L Moore Nature Sanctuary

    440 Wilchester Blvd, Houston, TX 77079 I visited this nature sanctuary location for the second time today.  We wanted to go check on a geocache we hid in there together about sixteen months ago.  When we hid our cache, it was the only one in this little wooded oasis of 17.5 acres in West Houston,…

  • I Spy

    Last week at work, I saw an unusual bird hanging out in the mid-foliage range in our little mini-forest that borders one side of the property.  It was striking in appearance, and of course I wanted to solve the mystery of what it was, since birds have been on my brain lately.  Without a field…

  • Taking In Lake Texana

    This past weekend, we went camping at Lake Texana State Park and had a great time.  This park is about two hours southwest of Houston, off of Hwy 59 in Granado. We wouldn’t normally go camping back to back weekends, but this trip was a special one.  We had committed ourselves to helping with the…

  • Huntsville State Park

    We celebrated New Years Eve weekend at Huntsville State Park, located in (you might guess) Huntsville, Texas, which is about an hour drive north of Houston.  This park joined the state park system in 1938, yet much work remained in the park at that time.  Most of that work centered around the building and then…