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  • Spring Creek Nature Center Goings-On

    There are so many reasons to love the Spring Creek Nature Center.  Inside the center, displays dazzle young children with live and preserved specimens, coloring areas, quizzes, fun worksheets and nature journals. Outside, there is the forest, which is practically enchanted; filled with lichens, mosses, big trees and little trees.  Mud sucked at our shoes…

  • Prairie Parkway

    South of the Indian Grass Prairie preserve section of the Katy Prairie Conservancy land, a steady stream of Northern Harriers fly northward, forty eight in total counted by birders within about an hour.  Like the jets that were named after them, these birds now seem symbolic of war – the current war between development and…

  • Coming Soon

    I have neglected this poor blog, and if you are a regular reader, bless your heart and I am sorry.  I was consumed with wedding planning, as I tried to put together a wedding in less than three months with a very bare-bones budget.  It’s over, and it was a success, and now I can…

  • Hill Country Highways: Burnet, Durn it! Episode 1

    Over the weekend, we headed out to Burnet, Texas for a weekend getaway.  This was a trip that ended in adventure, education, and eventual disappointment. First off, I will admit that originally I was mispronouncing the name of this town.  I was telling my “sisters” about the trip I had planned there, and Stevie Muree…