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Category Archives: nature

at Zilker Botanical Garden

March 12, 2012 – 8:58 pm

Day 1 of our Spring Break staycation. overlooking the Rose Garden: in the Butterfly Garden: enjoying the Children’s Garden: I’ve been to Zilker Botanical Garden lots of times before, but what struck me most on this visit were (a) how accessible the bathrooms are. When you take preschoolers for a morning romp through a big [...]

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New Year’s Eve at Inks Lake

January 1, 2012 – 10:35 pm

Prickly pear Some kind of sotol? or yucca? Deer track in our campsite Great Blue Heron, on the lake near Devil’s Waterhole Camp kitchen Cooking pouches of camp fire apples on New Year’s Eve! Playing “sink or float?” in small pools of water in the gneiss rock After dinner Pencil cactus White-tailed deer Playing in [...]

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at the park

October 24, 2011 – 1:38 pm

playing at Balcones District Park this morning: “I see a airplane!” playing with rocks under the live oaks:

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fire

September 7, 2011 – 2:06 pm

It’s surreal here in ATX today.  The air is hazy with smoke.  The smell is strong, strong enough that it’s uncomfortable for many folks to stay outside for long. Bastrop State Park, around 30 miles SE of our home, is burned. One article I read today stated that 130,000 acres have burned across the state. [...]

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