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Pocket Prairie: Helping Our Neighbors, Healing Our Minds

Posted on July 5, 2020January 23, 2022 by Shannon

Tying the proverbial bow on a 1-yr-old backyard prairie restoration project. Still going!

Posted in Birds, Conservation, Insects, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Eastern Bluebird, Fawn, Pocket prairie, Restoration, Summer, Wildflowers15 Comments

Pocket Prairie: Under Cover

Posted on July 30, 2019January 23, 2022 by Shannon

An on-going project, mulching revives the life removed.

Posted in Conservation, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Education, Lawther Prairie, Milkweed, Mulching, Pocket prairie, Restoration, Rewilding, Wildflowers15 Comments

Pocket Prairie: Death of a Turf Grass

Posted on July 2, 2019January 23, 2022 by Shannon

The birth of a pocket prairie. Nature HEALS!

Posted in Conservation, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Flooding, Grasses, Katy Prairie Conservancy, Pocket prairie, Restoration, Rewilding, Selah Ranch, Solarizing10 Comments

Urban Re-wilding: Can Lawns and Wildflowers Get Along?

Posted on April 8, 2019June 7, 2019 by Shannon

It's possible, if we give Nature a chance.

Posted in Conservation, Insects, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged American Lady, Buckeye, Clover, Evening Primrose, Fleabane, Forest Tent Moth Caterpillar, Herbertia Lahue, Pocket prairie, Texas Butterweed, Wildflowers, Windflower29 Comments

School Gardens: Creating Habitat, Ecosystem Diversity

Posted on February 3, 2019February 4, 2019 by Shannon

Build it, and they will come.

Posted in Insects, Nature, Reptiles, vs. Human habitatTagged Fungus, Gray Tree Frog, Green Anole, Ladybird Beetle, Monarch caterpillar, Mushrooms, Ox Beetle Larva, Pollen, pollination, School gardens, Sunflower7 Comments

Yard-birding: Break In The Chaos

Posted on February 2, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Pretty birds, wrecking my work as usual.

Posted in Birds, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Birdbath, Blue-headed Vireo, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Mockingbird, Pileated woodpecker, Summer Tanager, Winter, Yardbirds14 Comments

Skunked. By a Blackbird. (Twice.)

Posted on November 28, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

We may not have gotten the blackbird, but we got so much more.

Posted in Animals, Birds, Conservation, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Alligator, American Kestrel, Birding, Brazoria NWR, Crested Caracara, Nothern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Rusty Blackbird, San Bernard NWR, Skunk11 Comments

Cicada Song of Summer

Posted on June 21, 2018January 21, 2022 by Shannon

The sound of the Lyric Cicada sings in the first day of summer. Huzzah!

Posted in Insects, Living, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Morning, Solitude, Summer, Superb Dog-Day Cicada, White Ibis14 Comments

Nearing The End Of Harvey

Posted on August 29, 2017November 30, 2020 by Shannon
Stick gauges and the direction of flow alert us to potential neighborhood flooding.

We're dry, but it ain't over yet.

Posted in Insects, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Crawdad, Evacuation, Flooding, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, John Campbell, Levees, NOAA, Stick gauge, USGS20 Comments

Where’s Waldo?

Posted on May 16, 2017July 25, 2020 by Shannon

The daily hunt for a very blend-y Sean the fawn.

Posted in Animals, Children, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Fawn, White-tailed deer27 Comments

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