State of Wilderness

Category: Nature in the neighborhood

  • Pundt Park: What I Love About Forests

    There’s a certain way the light falls in a forest that just makes my heart tremble with excitement.  It’s a spill of sunlight across a swath of leaves gathered at the edge of a fallen tree, or the emerald green of moss creeping up a tree base.  It’s rounding a bend in a trail and…

  • CRNT #5: Wonders of Nature

    Well, I’ve been back to my favorite spot; by hike and by bike, alone and with family, not with the dogs since the last time I wrote about it but maybe sometime this week. These are some of the things we’ve seen along the way.  Above, a Loggerhead Shrike looks over his kingdom.  Cottontails show…

  • Cinco Ranch Nature Trail #4 – The Darn Dog

    “Daddy, did you hear that dog?” said the little girl who had just passed us on her bike to her father next to her.  “Yes, I did,” he said. I was not surprised.  I bet everyone at the lake last night heard my dog.  The little girl was referring to the whining he was doing…