Hello everyone! Sorry it has been so long since my last post, but I have been pretty swamped and haven’t had time for much beyond work. All work and no play makes Lisa a bad blogger. Ha! I do appreciate your emails asking if I’m okay, makes me feel wanted! I’m going to try to […]
Nature
Critters, wildflowers, prairies, butterflies, and more!
To Paris and back: Day 2, finale
This post finishes up our adventure to Paris and back! We spent our last hours in Paris with Johnny Johnson — a great guy who loves prairies. He drove us around to see some good ones, and he said he knew I’d want to see this view of Gambill’s Goose Preserve — and wow was […]
To Paris and back: Day 2, Part 2: How prairie trees should be
We arrived at Daphne Prairie and were immediately greeted by 15 or so bluebirds — how cool is that? Then we checked out the prairie for the next 4 hours or so, it was beautiful. Daphne Prairie is around 1,000 acres, with two hay meadows that had never been grazed. Wow. It’s so great seeing […]
To Paris and back: Day 1
We went to Paris this weekend — Paris, TX, that is! We left Austin around 11 AM, and got to our first stop around 4 PM — Manning Meadow, a 300 acre prairie near Wills Point. We didn’t have much daylight left, so we started right in! There were lots of windflowers blooming in white, […]
Playing around with iPhoto
I know everyone’s eagerly awaiting some photos and news from CHA — and it’s coming, I promise. I worked on it some tonight, should have it up tomorrow! In the meantime, I thought I’d post this picture from a workday we had at Indiangrass Preserve on Sunday. It was fun — about 30 people showed […]
More ice.
Woke up this morning to more ice — wow! Just had to take some pictures to share. Here’s the kitchen table — that’s a rose bush right outside the window. You can see the oak trees are all coated in ice and are leaning over the back fence. Some Lindheimer Senna seedpods: Switch grass: It […]