Piney Creek Reflections: Landscapes and Birds from the Banks of Piney Creek Oil Paintings and Photographs by Tammy Brown Hosted by Piney Creek Chophouse, 703 Chestnut St, Bastrop, Texas Bastrop First Friday Art Walk, March 3, 2017, 5:30-8:30 Please join us!
Category: Bastrop Lost Pines Nature
Wildlife, insects, native plants and living respectfully in the native environment at Little Piney, home and wildlife habitat in the Lost Pines of Bastrop, Texas.
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An Invitation to Bastrop First Friday Art Walk, March 3
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Coyotes and Other Critters Call Little Piney “Home”
Coyote Pack I love to pour a cup of coffee in the morning and look out the back window. Sometimes I see deer, and sometimes coyotes and other critters. This pack of three has been around for awhile now. Coyotes and Other Critters Early one morning, I saw a deer and coyote cross paths. Things wereContinue reading
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Magical Morning at Little Piney
Magical Morning at Little Piney At 7 am mist floats above the front field. Spiders’ webs fly like white surrender flags in the dawn. The webs hold hundreds of Lynx spiders’ eggs guarded by watchful mothers. Sparrows and Cardinals chip and sing in the tall fading field. A Lincoln’s Sparrow, just back for the winter,Continue reading
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Red-shouldered Hawk’s Crunchy Breakfast
Red-shouldered Hawk Sometimes all I see of the Red-shouldered Hawk is a dark shadow passing over the field, sometimes, a familiar shape disappearing at the edge of vision. She is in front of me, then behind me when I never saw her move. Sometimes, I turn around, and she is only feet away calm andContinue reading
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When I’m Birding It’s Totally Up to the Birds
It’s Totally Up to the Birds I have to confess, on my first few “birding walks” led by expert birders, I asked myself “Are they making this up?” Most of the time, I never saw the bird they pointed out. When I did, I saw a gray silhouette against the morning sky while the guideContinue reading
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Autumn’s Creeping in Slowly in the Lost Pines
Autumn’s Creeping In Slowly Autumn’s creeping in slowly this year in the Lost Pines. The elms leaves disappeared without any showy display of yellow. The invasive but lovely Chinese Tallows have yet to flame orange or red. Bird feeders in Bastrop County are hanging full in quiet yards, and the autumn birds are slow inContinue reading
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August Heat Wave
New Trees When the heat index hits 110, it’s tempting to stay indoors, but chores and pleasure draw me outside at Little Piney. For one thing, I have young trees to water. In the early spring, we planted 9 trees or shrubs that produce fruit and berries for the birds. The Mulberry, Fig, Rusty BlackContinue reading
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Special Moments in Nature–A Lucky Witness
Special Moments in Nature I pull out onto the highway from a dirt road. In front of me, a single black crow feather spirals slowly down from the sky. The suspended feather spins like a tiny dirt devil as I leave it behind. I step outside to watch for a late delivery truck.Continue reading
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My Field Event–Grasshopper Photography
My Field Event Some of you know that my husband is USA Masters Track and Field World Champion sprinter. We are opposites in many ways–he’s fast, and I’m slow, for example, I’m usually paces behind him. We approach things differently; he’s very systematic in his approach to life, and I’m more likely to have aContinue reading
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What’s New at Little Piney
Fresh Spring Photos from Little Piney Place your cursor over the image to see a description of what’s new at Little Piney.