This will be an analytical accounting of the big oasis tank; its creation, loss, and what went wrong. I'm writing this as a record, the ...

I don't think we've ever gotten a monsoon in March before. And that's a great time to get one, when everything is parched and tr...

Lucifers were a bit late returning this year. Don't know why, but just glad to have them back. And I was finally well enough to water th...

Just as the weather took a turn for the worse, I came down with a bad case of flu. That was a week ago and I'm still sick. Now that it...

Weather is warm one day and cold the next, back and forth. I'm going to be coming out of hibernation soon now. The last couple of months...

Pretty much confined to bird watching out my windows these days, when I noticed a Eurasian Collared-Dove jumping up and down in a strange ma...

It got down to 18° here in Alpine this morning. Having the water feature here is saving me from worse cabin fever than I already have, while...

I've lost track of how many times I went to Balmorhea hoping to add Crested Caracara to my Reeves County list. The species was seen and...

I don't know how I made it in Alpine for nearly twenty years without my little water feature there. In mid January an Arctic cold snap ...