Sunday Photos: Lone Star Long Necks
I drive by these guys on my way to town. The owner of the Camel Farm keeps and trains a variety of exotic animals that wander the grounds happily with…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: A Black Cat For Black Friday
Foreman was one of the first feral cats we saw on Dry Creek Hill. He was a tough guy who looked like he’d been stalking these woods for a while…
Read moreSunday Photos: Settin’ Up For Saturday
Sooner or later, we all start to look like our Longhorn. Photograph something you love in a way that gives you joy, or challenges you, or wakes you up to…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: A Roll In The Mud
This week’s featured colony member may have been the most aptly and oddly named cat in our colony. His name certainly drew quizzical looks from the staff at the spay/neuter…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Turk And The Masters
A few years ago I taught formerly-feral-now-housecat Turk to appreciate watching golf and the Masters is the best there is. He reminded me the delayed, only time in history played…
Read moreFall With Hummingbirds and Inca Doves
I take down the front deck hummingbird feeders when we have a hummer-free week or two, usually in late October. I leave the back feeder up for migrating stragglers that…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Scamper Of The Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes
One of Shadow’s two children, Scamper was born not long before we attended our trap, neuter, and release training program. In fact, her birth was one of the precipitating events…
Read moreVote Grindle!
I miss Art Grindle. When I was growing up in Houston Grindle would pound on or stand on his cars as he shouted “I want to sell you a car!”…
Read moreSunday Photos: Chupacabra And The Toolbird
We found this bicycle-riding fellow at a Mexican imports shop in Bandera, Texas. When we asked the owner what he thought it was, he laughed and said he’d come to…
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