State of Wilderness

Category: Texas State Parks

  • Nature’s Surprise

    Most years, we try to go on a First Day Hike.  All fifty states have participating state parks that participate in this initiative to get people outdoors and active.  For us, it is a way to start the year doing something we love. This year, we decided on Huntsville State Park because 1) our friends…

  • 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.…

  • Caprock Canyons State Park: Free Verse Style

    Rising from a dream, Noticing a sky full of stars, I look over and Jason met my eye We go outside to look, my oldest son following silently We all marveled at the detail Of the galaxy above us And go back to sleep in awe   Morning’s first light, We sneak away for a daybreak…

  • Galveston State Park

    For the second year in a row, we went down to Galveston to celebrate my youngest’s birthday at the end of May.  Yes, the seaweed was still bad.  This year, cold weather in early spring led to a bombardment of Sargassum seaweed on Galveston’s shores (as well as several other coastal towns).  This seaweed comes from…