State of Wilderness

Month: December 2014

  • Geocaching: Year in Review

    I was looking at a post on the Houston Geocaching Society’s forum regarding last year’s New Year’s resolutions, caching style.  These were my goals from last year that I posted: 1) Work on finding the caches near my house.  Specifically, I would like to see the first page of unfound caches be further than 3…

  • A Year of Birds on the Brain

    It’s Christmas day, and I am ridiculously excited about two of the presents I received – an audio CD of bird songs from Jason to learn how to identify species by ear, and a birding journal from my mom.  “It’s so funny that you got so into this bird thing,” he says, “considering you’re so…

  • Cross Creek Ranch: Where Nature Resides

    Scenes from dawn to dusk at Polishing Pond, an area within the Cross Creek Ranch neighborhood dedicated to nature.  The fifty acre series of connected ponds acts as an engineered water quality basin, filtering water for use in irrigation in the nearby community.  It also attracts a LOT of wildlife, mostly birds.  Although primarily waterfowl can…

  • Kaleb: Destroyer of Peace and Serenity

    My second child is sometimes a bit of a mess.  He doesn’t really know how to be quiet.  Given that, we should have known better when we decided to bring him into the forest with us when we stopped in Bear Creek Park to look for the rare and elusive Greater PeeWee. However, what are…