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Fall Seedlings
Spinach mustard seedlings after the first round of thinning. I’m keeping the competition open to see who will be strongest. Arugula, not thinned yet. It is the first of the salad greens to be planted. Lettuce gets to be sown in about two weeks. Carrots, not thinned yet either. Soon. Not a seedling, but my sweet dumpling squash has bounced back. One plant was on the verge of failure after the rest of its friends bit the dust, but it recovered. I planted a few more seeds and they are doing well. The spaghetti squash I replanted is also doing well (photo still of the sweet dumpling). I’m beginning to…
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Late Summer Hike | WG Jones State Forest
Feeling the need to get out and stretch my legs, I drove to WG Jones State Forest, which is about 25 minutes from my house. It really isn’t that far away but all of the roads to get there are minor surface roads with a lot of traffic signals and speed limits are only as high as 55 in a few places. Nonetheless, it is a nice little bit of green space surrounded by suburbia. The town of The Woodlands abuts the forest to the west and south, though the park is technically in Conroe city limits. Chris and I went and explored the north portion of the park sometime…
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Paddling Galveston Island State Park
Last weekend Chris and I drove to Galveston for a short weekend stay over the Labor Day holiday. We headed for Galveston Island State Park to kayak their paddling trails on the bay side of the park. I hadn’t even used my kayak since getting it last Christmas and Chris hadn’t taken his out in awhile either. We launched from the Jenkins Bayou trailhead, driving the truck down a narrow two-track road to the launch to drop our kayaks off before parking back up the way in the parking lot. This made it a lot easier than wheeling our kayaks down the road like we’d thought we were going to…