Look what’s starting to bloom right outside the kitchen window — our Prairie Rose (Rosa setigera)! I just love this rose. It’s our native rose, so you can just plant it and watch it grow — no fuss. Just look how the petals fade so there’s all different pinks — some even spotted Love how […]
Nature
Critters, wildflowers, prairies, butterflies, and more!
Blue!
Just a quick share of a photo of Mealy Blue Sage (Salvia farinacea) — a native Texas prairie plant — that I took on Thursday growing near some old railroad tracks. It was so pretty. I can just imagine what it must have looked like when the whole area was still prairie — like a […]
Remembering Bob Burleson
This afternoon Jason and I are going to a memorial service for Bob Burleson, a truly great man. I am so glad to have known him. I am in tears as I write this — I looked through just some of my photos of him and had to stop. Here he is leading a field […]
Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day everyone! Hope you take a minute to celebrate — I’m hoping to take some pictures of the prairie wildflowers blooming in the garden to share — they are so happy, even with the drought. Jason and I are going to see the Disney earth movie tonight — opening night! — I’ve been […]
Winter Sky
Spent the day with Scott clearing brush at Indiangrass Preserve. It was just the right temperature — 44 when we got there + 47 when we left. The wind was blowing pretty good, but once I started working I was all nice and toasty warm. We kept hoping for rain because it’s been so dry […]
What a great weekend!
Hope you had a great weekend! I sure did — have lots of random stuff to share… Saturday we finally got our tree up, yay!!! We never did find our LED lights from last year, so we in the dark — doh! Spent 2 hours trying to find some white ones locally last weekend — […]