State of Wilderness

Author: keely

  • 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…

  • Brazos Bend, Take Three

    November 29, 2014 Pilant Slough Trail.  Wheels turning on slightly damp fine gravel paths.  Watch out, I say to the little one, watch out for the rocks in the path.   Stay on one side of the trail, announce yourselves to the pedestrians, tread lightly, go quietly. We step off the path for a moment.…

  • Wild Montana

    July 21, 2014 Two horses nudge each other nervously, looking over each other’s withers across the fence, towards the treeline.  Two dark figures move slowly across the field, cautiously stepping out of the cover of the forest.  Jason’s eagle eye had stopped these slow movements, and we had turned the truck around and parked to…

  • Hill Country Highways: Burnet, Durn it, Episode 5: One Year Anniversary

    I am standing in a pitch black field. The darkness soaks up my coat and pants, and I can barely make out my bare hands. Dark sky protocol dictates that the only lights out here are four infrared bulbs: two marking the path, and two marking the edge of the shed that housed the telescopes that…