Hi blog readers, if you are still out there. I didn’t meant to ghost you since the last post in August but it was a necessity. I spent that time finishing my book and turned it in last week. I mean, it’s done but of course it will need some editing and there are some accessory documents I need to work on in the next few weeks to keep the publishing process moving along. I’m not here to write about all of that but will at some point in time. This is mostly an “I”m alive” post. And still unsure what to do with the blog. I feel a lot…

Little Pine Island Bayou, Lance Rosier Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve Hello out there! It’s been more than a few months since I’ve written here. This blog has been in fluctuation for at least the last five years as I’ve slowly stopped writing frequently to the point of not writing at all. I’m still writing, just elsewhere. In all honesty, I’m trying to figure out what to do with the blog. It’s time for it to evolve. I’m hesitant to move a lot of it offline because there’s a lot of trip and hiking reports that might be useful to someone doing a google search. And I pilfer through here…

I didn’t mean to take so long away from the blog but it has been great to get a bit of a break. Two people have prompted to me return to some more regular writing: my blog posts came up when they did a google search looking for a plant and they told me about it! If that isn’t a sign that things like trip and plant reports are worth the while, then I don’t know what is! The addition of the AI search results on Google has really done a number to the rest of the search results there and even I find myself sometimes stopping short of scrolling…

If you’ve been around reading this blog for any length of time, you may have read at some point that we had a massive amount of feral cats at our house. When we moved here in late June 2012 we knew there were a couple of feral cats because we would see them when we came for closing walk throughs or for the first initial move-in. But it was when we came in late one night and the headlights turned to the carport that we saw just the number of cats we were dealing with. I spent several months trapping and then getting them fixed and releasing them, which I…

Hello friends out there! Long time, no write! I didn’t meant to let June get away from me but this has been a busy summer. Most of it was planned out months ago as we had to figure out when Forest would spend his few weeks with grandparents. Due to various scheduling conflicts between two sets of grandparents + a summer vacation in July, it ended up being instead of two weeks back to back, once in June and once in July, single weeks spread out through June and July/August. Which has meant more driving back and forth for us to and from DFW. Such is life but I’m glad…