State of Wilderness

Category: Urban Wilderness Areas

  • Bear Creek Park and Some Fun-gis

    Monday was a holiday for me, but not for J.  The kids were still gone, and I had no idea what I was going to do with myself.  I considered some more mundane pursuits, but ultimately decided I really wanted to play outside, after spending most of Sunday indoors. So I posted a thread on the Houston…

  • Simonton After the Storm

    I thought we were headed to Lake Jackson today. But last night, the long rumored storm that was coming finally hit.  Or should I say this morning.  About five am, we were listening to the wind and rain pounding the side of the house and talking half coherently about how bad it was supposed to…

  • Houston Audobon Society: Edith L Moore Nature Sanctuary

    440 Wilchester Blvd, Houston, TX 77079 I visited this nature sanctuary location for the second time today.  We wanted to go check on a geocache we hid in there together about sixteen months ago.  When we hid our cache, it was the only one in this little wooded oasis of 17.5 acres in West Houston,…

  • Huntsville State Park

    We celebrated New Years Eve weekend at Huntsville State Park, located in (you might guess) Huntsville, Texas, which is about an hour drive north of Houston.  This park joined the state park system in 1938, yet much work remained in the park at that time.  Most of that work centered around the building and then…