November 5th we had a workday at Brodie Wild. 21 volunteers planted over 350 plants — wow! Jason co-ordinated getting the workday together. Together with another volunteer, I placed the plants so they’d be ready for planting, and I helped plant too. My legs were really sore the next few days — yowza. Now we […]
Nature
Critters, wildflowers, prairies, butterflies, and more!
Doeskin Ranch
On October 29th Jason and I went hiking at Doeskin Ranch, a tract of land in the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. It is about an hour northwest of Austin. I took a bunch of pictures (gallery), including this one of a Great Plains Ladies’ Tresses Orchid. Yep, there are orchids in Texas — 54 […]
NPSOT Symposium in San Antonio
I finally had a chance to create some photo galleries from the 2006 Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) Symposium. Every year members from all over Texas meet at the symposium. This year it was in San Antonio and was held Thursday October 19 thru Sunday October 22. Jason and I left Austin Thursday evening […]
Fall Gardening Festival at the Wildflower Center
I flew back from Vegas on Friday Oct 13 — and got up bright and early the next morning to work at the Fall Gardening Festival at the Wildflower Center. Jason and I both worked at the Native Plant Society of Texas booth selling plants and answering questions. That’s Jason on the far right in […]
I’m back again!
Howdy all! I’m back again, and mostly caught up with everything. No plans to go anywhere until Thanksgiving, whew. So much to tell you about the last two weeks — they’ve been super crazy busy but still fun. I thought I’d start catching up with the day before I left for Memory Trends — it […]
Happy October!
Happy October everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. I sure did — things are finally calming down a little. Friday I went to the Wildflower Center to hear a lecture on bees — learned alot! They’ve got more lectures coming up, so if you’re in the Austin area then be sure to check ’em […]