By: Janet Dawson
Janet is a member of the Prairie Oaks Chapter.
- Where were you born? Raised?
- Garland, TX
- Where do you live now?
- Dublin, TX
- Would you care to share with us about your family?
- I have two sisters, I am widowed, and I have a dog, Annie, and a cat, Gucci
- What is/has been your career? Education?
- I graduated from Texas Tech University and have a degree in Elementary Education and for 23 years and now work in retail and have for several years
- What are some of your hobbies?
- I quilt and make bowl cozies and am looking in to making other crafty items.
- To what do you attribute your love of Nature?
- My Grandfather who owned the land we (my sister and brother in law and I) now live on. I loved coming here and helping with the cows and fishing with my Grandmother.
- What was it that interested you in the Texas Master Naturalist program?
- My sister talking about it and wanting to bring the nature in a natural sense here.
- What was it that interested you in the Prairie Oaks chapter?
- I live in this area and my sister.
- What has been your greatest takeaway from the POTXMN experience?
- Learning the things I didn’t know about the flowers and grasses here. The animals that live here are wild. The interaction of all the living things here.
- Describe what would be your perfect, bucket-list natural science encounter or experience.
- To Visit Yellowstone again and see the wildlife especially the wolves. To also visit many to all of the state and national parks.