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The cliff swallows have returned to Madroño Ranch. They’ve expanded their housing development under the western eave of the Main House to several eastern eaves, one of which we can see from inside the house. We watched them build their … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bend National Park, birds, cliff swallows, Lajitas, love, Terlingua
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Look out of any window
Last week we spent several days at the Chisos Mountains Lodge, in Big Bend National Park, with our friends Bruce and Margaret Bennett and Peter and Kay Willcox. (Longtime readers may recall that Bruce was my hiking buddy on coast-to-coast … Continue reading
Posted in Place
Tagged Big Bend National Park, birds, Chihuahuan desert, Chisos Mountains, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Reality TV, West Texas
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Field notes from Madroño Ranch: bison and birds
This is a bird-and-bison-intensive kitchen sink of a blog post; even Martin’s most focused editorial ministrations will be of no avail in trying to flush out some kind of narrative thread. To lend it at least an illusion of coherence, … Continue reading
Posted in Place
Tagged birds, bison, fly-fishing, Madroño Ranch, Thunder Heart Bison, Tink Pinkard
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Gratuitous beauty
Our friend John Burnett recently returned from a trip to Japan, one of a handful of places he’d never been in a long career as a reporter for NPR. As a specialist in the American Southwest and Latin America, he … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged Aldo Leopold, beauty, birds, David Brooks, Japan, National Public Radio, recapitulation theory
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South Texas: a fierce and unexpected beauty
Yum! This week has afforded me yet another in a long—seemingly infinite, in fact—series of opportunities to eat crow. Heather and I returned yesterday from a visit to our friends Hugh and Sarah Fitzsimons’ Shape Ranch, outside Carrizo Springs. As … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, bison, eating crow, South Texas, Texas Hill Country, Thunder Heart Bison
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Home with the armadillo: a love letter to Texas
Recently we and our three kids went to Martin’s native San Francisco to help celebrate his father’s eighty-fifth birthday. The five of us spent an afternoon walking along the cliffs of Point Reyes National Seashore, where the ground was springy, … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Colorado, Point Reyes National Seashore, San Antonio, San Francisco, South Texas, Texas Hill Country, Thunder Heart Bison
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