Christmas Bird Count New Year’s at Little Piney was all about the wildlife. On January 1, I participated in my first Christmas Bird Count in Bastrop. Every year, all over the world, on a given day between December 14 and January 5, tens of thousands of local birders count the birds in their area and report theContinue reading
Category: Lost Pines Life
The Lost Pines Life is about living respectfully with wildlife, protecting the environment, thriving on the peace, healing with nature, and following the creative path.
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Wild New Year at Little Piney
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Favorite Photos 2015, First Year at Little Piney– Part 1
First Year at Little Piney Our first year at Little Piney has been rich and blessed. She is becoming familiar tree by tree, bird by bird, yet I am thrilled to know that my feet have yet to explore some of her ground and my eyes will never see all of her avian visitors. Looking back throughContinue reading
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First Thanksgiving at Little Piney
The Peak of Fall Color Little Piney did it’s part to create a perfect Thanksgiving setting. Dressed in an array of golden tones, the fall colors peaked after last weekend’s first frost. First Thanksgiving at Little Piney Although Fall leaves provided the perfect backdrop for Thanksgiving, other aspects of country living didn’t cooperate so well.Continue reading
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Creating Garden Borders with Bottles: Eight Tips to Make it Easy
Creating Garden Borders with Bottles Creating garden borders with bottles is fun. You get to recycle bottles, be creative, and keep the weeds out. The internet offers some good articles (links below) explaining different methods of construction. Read several how-to articles for the basic idea then follow these tips to save time and trouble. CheckContinue reading
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Birds! Bald Eagles! Lake’s Fall Look
Backyard Birds So many birds were hanging out with us at Little Piney this weekend, I could scarcely let go of my camera and binoculars. The birds below were all photographed while visiting the feeders or within view of the feeders in the back yard on Saturday. In addition, a noisy group of Cedar WaxwingsContinue reading
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The Arthropod Series: Part I, The Praying Mantis Knocks
The Arthropod Series A bright green and yellow spider spinning webs on the Yellow Bells by the gate caught my eye on Saturday morning. That prompted the attachment of a macro lens to my camera, and a hunt in the fields for colorful spiders. The successful spider expedition set the arthropod theme for theContinue reading
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Rainy Weekend at Little Piney
Rainy Weekend Thirty-six hours of rain, and I’m not complaining. First of all, the rain put an end to the Hidden Pines Fire allowing efforts to shift toward clean up and assistance for the families affected. Second, the long, steady rain puts an end (at least temporarily) to the threat of more wildfires. Third, rainContinue reading
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Hidden Pines Fire
Hidden Pines Fire from Little Piney Sadly, Bastrop County is suffering another devastating fire. The fire is no longer spreading, but 4582 acres have burned, including 48 “structures,” probably homes, and parts of Buescher and Bastrop State Parks. Four thousand of those acres are still burning, and firefighters from all over the state andContinue reading
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Nature Writes Her Own Story
Red Shouldered Hawks Last Sunday, I planned to spend the morning discovering fall migrants–the warblers, orioles, hummingbirds, etc. that birders all over Texas reported daily for the past week. I didn’t have much luck with that plan, though. Instead, Sunday’s story was about larger birds. Red Shouldered Hawks patroled at Little Piney all day. I saw themContinue reading
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Hints of Fall
Fall visitors Temperatures range in the nineties yet there are hints of fall in the air at Little Piney. Early mornings feel pleasant, and migrating birds stop by for seed and berries. I’ve spied two early ducks, a Black and White Warbler, and a Baltimore Oriole. I hear lots of new calls and songs and seeContinue reading