Vacation Day #3: Lichens

I like lichens — so many awesome colors, and such a neat “critter”. On vacation we learned that lichens don’t like pollution at all — so Austin must not be too bad since we still have some in the trees around our house. But they don’t compare to the ones in the Davis Mountains. This […]

Vacation Day #2: We found it!

We woke up hoping for more snow — but it was mostly melted — darn. So we decided to take our car out as far as we could on the jeep trails of the preserve and then do some more hiking. We were wishing we knew how to get to the beautiful canyon where we […]

Vacation Day #1: Snow!

Howdy all! Jason and I are back from our vacation in the Davis Mountains in west Texas. We had a ton of fun — we went hiking every day except for one “rest day” when we went on another adventure — more on that later. We left Austin on Friday, December 22 and drove to […]

O Christmas Tree

We got our tree last weekend — an Eastern Red Cedar — finally got a tree stand last night — an elf must have taken our old one, because we couldn’t find it. We’ll be putting it up today — yay! Eastern Red Cedars are prairie invaders around here. A friend cut ours from a […]

Back from Ohio!

Howdy everyone! Just wanted to let you know that I’m back from our Thanksgiving trip to Ohio. We had a great time visiting family, friends, and old hangouts. I miss you guys already. This picture was taken at Jason’s Grandma’s house. Love how the leaves are off the trees and the moon. I think I […]

A great weekend.

What a great weekend. Saturday I got stuff done around the house and then went for a bike ride. A cold front had moved in, so my ride was in the 60’s — felt good! Sunday I got to hang out with two good friends — Scott and Coby. (Jason had to work — poor […]