How do you know it’s the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count? At Fisherman’s Park, serious bird-watchers stand before tripod-mounted cameras with one hand focusing their long lenses as… Read More →
Musings from the Back Porch
Diamonds in December
I don’t know about you, but the last thing I expect to see in early December is a diamondback rattlesnake. It’s winter (well, as winter as we get here in central… Read More →
Musings from the Back Porch – Garden Spider
Okay, this post is more appropriately about a musing looking out from the bedroom window, but same difference . . . I remember the first time I saw a garden… Read More →
Musings from the Back Porch – Black Witch
I never know what I’ll see when I step onto the back porch to feed Charlie. They aren’t always pleasant surprises, but tonight it was. This evening I saw my… Read More →
Musings from the Back Porch – A Crow
I never thought I’d hold a crow in my hand, but tonight I did. It was in the chicken coop and apparently couldn’t figure its way out of the coop… Read More →
Musings from the Back Porch – Rat Snakes
It’s not uncommon to find Texas rat snakes around our place. We have egg-laying chickens and rat snakes really seem to enjoy consuming their eggs. I don’t even know the… Read More →