This is the story of a cypress tree that lay in a bayou in South Louisiana for many years. How many years? 100? 300? Who knows? It begins one day when I decided I wanted to build a writing table for my home library in Slidell, La. I looked on...
Way out Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, past the NASA Michoud facility and past the Vietnamese grocers and cafes, you can turn north onto Highway 11 and cruise a few miles along Bayou Sauvage. This area is a federal wildlife refuge with...
I am back at the Prairie Field Station to check on the nature of things. We are having spectacular weather in Houston this week. Low humidity. Upper 70s. Sunshine. Flowers bloom in sunny places throughout the Houston Arboretum – around the...
I met an inquisitive man the other day at the Prairie Field Station in the Houston Arboretum. We had one of those unexpected discussions that sometimes happen when you least expect it . . .
Since this is our first cool weekend of this season in Houston, I am making chili. The weather finally has dropped out of the 80s and into the 50s. Not exactly a Nor’easter. Not exactly maple harvest time in Vermont. Our fields have none of those...
Some of you gentle readers may remember last September’s minor saga of Martha, beloved aunt of my wife, Lisa, and the dear soul’s less than urgent efforts to get out of Tallahassee, Fla., ahead of a Category 4 hurricane. Here is a little...
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