Texas Images

04/08/2025

Conroe Texas
Azaleas and Butterflies
My front yard. Texas Azaleas provide food for butterflies as well as being beautiful for our eyes. One of the best places to see Azaleas is our state.

01/28/2025

A rare and exhilarating snowfall deep in Southeast Texas just a week ago.

01/14/2025

Tradition is tradition in Texas. Grandpa and granddaughter always wear these hats on Thanksgiving, out of respect for the past and hope for the future. BTW.. Mine has rattlers on the brim.

01/01/2025

11/22/2024

This big boy visited my home last night in . A trail camera took the photo at about 4AM

11/11/2024

Monarch Butterflies now in my backyard producing caterpillars. We have seen very few this year in Conroe

10/16/2024

Don't know about you but I am wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt today. Tomorrow, maybe a jacket. Our three-week Fall is really beginning to happen. Summer has been difficult and extreme this year, but I love summer because it is the time for outdoors, especially in the mornings. Texas weather is something to joke about, because at one end we get tornadoes and hail and at the other end heat we get the tropics. With birds and the like, there is always something to write about. Here, we are in the subtropics and lately, we have severe winters on top of the warmth. Houston had extreme summer record breaking heat yesterday. We are probably only a month away from what I call "Texas cold". That is, moist (maybe not in this drought. this year) cold, where the icy winds get into your bones. Anyway, I love living and will enjoy what God gives us. Hope you do too. Enjoy!

10/03/2024

Crow in a neighbor's front yard. In Texas, you can see Crows from almost anywhere, but the East Texas Crows are huge American Crows with a wingspan about 3 feet. They are noisy and often engage in fights with predictors such as hawks. They do not apparently fear hawks but will try to peck out the eyes of a hawk when engaged on land, while a hawk will fight on the ground trying to take hold of anything on the birds, including a wing and then try to kill it. Often, engagements end in a standoff, but the fight can last for hours. I have witnessed such a fight at a hawk's nest, when the baby hawk was fledging the nest. There are 7 birds closely related to a Crow including the several species of the Jays. Yes, a Bluejay is very close in genetic terms to the Crow. I often see Crows in a flock on the grass or field together near water. Also, they will fly at the top of tall trees in the forest.

09/26/2024

This small Texas wildflower was observed a few days ago in a nature area. I do not know what it is called but Texas wildflowers are found in any field or natural area in Texas.

09/23/2024

From a distance, this Red Ear Turtle seemed to be part of the rock in the water. Looking more closely, I realized it was just a big Texas turtle who thinks he is riding a horse.

09/22/2024

Wow/ Suppose Texas will have its own moon? The skies of Texas ... LOL

NASA announced that an asteroid will begin to orbit Earth as a "mini-moon" for nearly two months beginning September 29.

09/18/2024

Galveston, Tx.
Racoons at the end of the East Beach jetty. They are wary and cautious, but they will come to eat out of your hand. I saw many in these rocks.