Red-Eared Slider: Days From Hatching

“Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, that’s what we do, we swim.” ~ Dory

Holding Steady

“There’s floodin’ down in Texas, all of the telephone lines are down.” ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan

Bunny Wood Chippers (Video!)

Dark Sky Yearning

(Feature photo courtesy of: Dark Sky Int’l,
photographer Tyler Nordgren)

It’s been a month already and I’m still longing to get back to The Big Bend. The stars of west Texas — absent from my own light-washed sky near Houston — have been burned into my retinal memory and haunt my dreams. I can’t see them here, but I know they’re there. I am thankful for the talents of time lapse photographers like Kenneth Edwards below so that I can visit the sky virtually, whenever I feel the need.

I can’t wait to get back to TBB. Counting the days…

Related Posts:

• Birding Big Bend, 1/27/2016
• Big Bend: Desert Clarity, 2/3/2016

The Science of the Super-Suck

Red Bud

“I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast-rooted, they travel about as far as we do.”
~ John Muir

Feeding Kids is For the Birds Sometimes (Video!)

“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.” ~ Gerald Ford