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Flooding

When It Rains, It Spores

Posted on September 20, 2019October 1, 2019 by Shannon

It may be cliché, but it's true when 15" of rain pours in 3 hours.

Posted in Family, Living, NatureTagged Bolete, Flooding, Fungus, Monarch butterfly, Mushrooms, Rain, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Summer19 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

Local Birding: Resetting The Love

Posted on January 7, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Kicking off 2019 right .. with feathers!

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged American Goldfinch, Anhinga, Birding, Brazos Bend State Park, Brazos River, Flooding, Purple Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Vermillion Flycatcher, White-faced Ibis, Yardbirds17 Comments

School Gardens Update: Mimicking Nature, Bed Prep How-to

Posted on October 2, 2017November 15, 2020 by Shannon
Adding water with each layer of amendment gets the beneficial soil microbes going.

Post hurricane, life gets back to normal again in the school gardens.

Posted in GardeningTagged Carbon, Flooding, Grasses, Leaves, Nitrogen, Raised bed garden, Raised bed gardening, School gardens8 Comments

Bizzaro

Posted on September 23, 2017December 27, 2021 by Shannon
The debri pile resulting from more than a hundred homes flooding during the Harvey rains.

When weird gets weirder ...

Posted in LivingTagged Blogging, Facebook, Flooding, WordPress9 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

Holding Steady

Posted on June 4, 2016January 21, 2022 by Shannon

Daily obsession with a stick gauge.

Posted in Living, NatureTagged Brazos River, Creek, Flooding, Stevie Ray Vaughan, YouTube11 Comments

Road-Swallowing River

Posted on May 31, 2016January 21, 2022 by Shannon

Views of Houston water drainage, Brazos River...flooding of potentially historic proportions.

Posted in Living, NatureTagged Brazos River, Creek, Flooding, Onion, Texas17 Comments

Here We Go Again

Posted on May 28, 2016January 21, 2022 by Shannon

Flooding now seems like an annual event.

Posted in Living, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Creek, Flooding, Texas9 Comments

Minimally Digital, A (Wet) April Outdoors

Posted on April 18, 2016January 21, 2022 by Shannon

A (nearly) wordless post. Still mostly off-line, here's April in a few pictures.

Posted in LivingTagged Alligator, Anhinga, Common Yellowthroat, Coopers Hawk, Flooding, Leaves, Rain, Rain barrel, Yardbirds2 Comments

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