Beautiful sunshine and water reflections: Bees buzzing around a few remaining flowers: A Vermillion Flycatcher: A beautiful coyote as he sauntered off in the distance: A variety of floating ducks swimming to-and-fro around the pond: With beautiful fall color reflections: Multiple dragonfly sightings! Another bird: Beautiful fall and winter colors: Duck wings flapping: And in…
Category: Nature
Big Bend Nat’l Park resident: Horse Lubber Grasshopper
The little friends you can make along the way, if you will only stop to say hello. I found this brilliantly colored grasshopper as I walked along the path near our lodge in the park. Hello Horse Lubber! 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 “Crowds of bees are giddy with cloverCrowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,Crowds of larks at…
Sea Turtle, Inc. – South Padre Island, TX
I love sea turtles! It started on a visit to Hawaii when I met one of these beautiful creatures face to face while snorkeling. It was love at first sight! So of course, I had to visit Sea Turtle, Inc. on our recent visit to South Padre Island. I didn’t know what to expect, but…
Dragonfly Dance
Thoughts back to summer as I contemplate the momentI stroll through past photos and remember the dragonfliesThey flutter and dance in the morning sunlightWings all shimmery with sparkles
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center was one of my favorite places we visited on our South Texas road trip last month. When planning our stop on South Padre Island I found it on-line and discovered it was right across from our hotel. We went in the morning and when we learned we could…
