I helped Mary deliver her classroom’s cage holding the Painted Ladies for the Butterfly Festival to the EmilyAnn Theatre on Friday. There were many cages there so it looked like the Festival was going to be a big success. Of … Continue reading →
I was in the garage yesterday morning filling up the chicken’s feed dish. I had just emptied the old bag and reached down to open the new one when out of the corner of my eye I saw a little … Continue reading →
It kind of sounds like a western. We saw the Painted Ladies at Caterpillar Camp last week. It wasn’t a movie and the painted ladies weren’t working. We volunteered at the EmilyAnn Theatre and Garden‘s Caterpillar Camp to help them … Continue reading →
Post oaks (Quercus stellata) are deciduous and completely lose their leafs in the fall. Two weeks ago, the post oaks were still bare. You could see little leaf buds forming, but there was no green. Now they’ve turning green and … Continue reading →
Not a ladybug, but the Bug Lady. I got to meet her. The speaker at last month’s Hays County Master Naturalist chapter meeting was Valerie Bugh. She is a local naturalist, specializing in the arthropods of the Austin area, with … Continue reading →