State of Wilderness

Category: Houston Parks

  • Fiorenza Park: Eagles, Reflections, Goals, and Pipe Dreams

    Fiorenza Park: Eagles, Reflections, Goals, and Pipe Dreams

    Every morning during the week, I turn my car east on Westpark Tollway and join all the cars heading out of Katy. There is a time, usually coming over the hill past 1093,  that I hit a slowdown of this congested spot of tollway and find myself sitting still in bumper to bumper gridlock that carries…

  • Summer Summary

    When I last wrote, the summer seemed full of possibilities yet, and now it is winding down.  Only two weeks until the start of another school year.  As we all expected, summer’s heat has turned up the dial and we are all sweltering.  However, it hasn’t really stopped us from playing outside, because we are…

  • Staying Cool in H-Town

    You haven’t heard much from me on here lately.  It’s not because I haven’t been thinking about you.   It’s just that we haven’t had many nature experiences lately.  First it was the storms and flood that kept us in, and then it was the heat and the bugs.  It has turned into that time…

  • Willow Waterhole

    Last week, I flew the coop again.  I was waiting on a friend who didn’t appear, and I didn’t want to lose another day to my living room, so I loaded the stroller and left to explore a park that I had been reading about and hadn’t visited yet. This time,  I decided my main objective was…