Symposium logo

I did this back in January — it’s for the fall symposium of the Native Plant Society of Texas and the Native Prairies Association of Texas — see the ad in yesterday’s post — y’all are officially invited! Some details: I was trying to capture the feeling of being “in” the prairie — it’s always […]

What I’ve been working on the past 2 weekends…

…when I wasn’t biking, hiking, cooking, washing clothing, grocery shopping, reading, stamping or something. (Notice how those all activities ended in “ing”. Hee hee.) You can click on the image to view it larger. It’s my first ever magazine ad — Jason volunteered me to do it. It’s to appear in the October issue of […]

A Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson

Lady Bird passed away about an hour ago. Read the tribute here. One of my many favorite quotes by her: Wherever I go in America, I like it when the land speaks its own language in it’s own regional accent. Lady Bird Johnson, 1993 I’m sad, but I will do my part to help continue […]

Well, it’s not done yet…

…but I like where it’s headed. Sideoats grama is the state grass of Texas, and one of my favorite grasses. It’s the grass in black and is a scan of some sideoats from our prairie garden. The photo is actually of little bluestem, but it will have to do for now. Ha ha. A friend […]

Back to the drawing board.

Oh no, I just did a search and there are 2 more people with the blog title “little blog on the prairie”. Sigh. One doesn’t seem very active — looks like it has changed hosting places and is now private, and the other doesn’t blog much about prairie tho. What now?  Keep it?  Try something […]