Nature
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Now those look like cookies!
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@rockchalkjayhawk looks like u took a bite out of the 2nd one on the bottom rt. Hmm
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@crimsonblu22 said in Nature:
@rockchalkjayhawk looks like u took a bite out of the 2nd one on the bottom rt. Hmm
I wish!
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They were super crumbly when the girls took them off the pan after baking. Melt in your mouth crumbly. Yummmm.
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HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!!! I was a sophomore in high school in Leavenworth in 1970 when the first Earth Day was celebrated. I remember Robert Redford being a big part of this endeavor to wake people up about the connection we all have to making sure our planet is happy, healthy and keeping the environment rather than paving everything with asphalt and concrete. Robert used to vacation in Austin as a young boy and was in awe of the Barton Springs pool, which is fed by a natural spring. He narrated a documentary on it and the activists that were demanding construction be limited at the Spring's beginning started a years long fight by the Citizens of Austin to protest the development upstream by a "less than caring individual", Jim Bob Moffat, who with all his money thought he could rape the land to gain a profit. At a City Hall hearing that went on for over 24 hours, the City of Austin denied his development permit and the Springs were saved. From time to time they have to close it due to runoff from the other developments that were allowed upstream and it is a never ending fight to keep the Springs healthy. It's a constant 68 degrees and people swim in it year round, even in winter, and it is a shock to your system when you jump in on a 100 degree day! There is a salamander that is on the threatened species list and a cave cricket that was also found and were able to declare it a federally protected habitat. One of our clients owned a 2,700 acre ranch where the headwaters for Barton Springs began and I got to help the ranch owners protect their land with conservation easements with the City of Austin and The Nature Conservancy, whereby their land will never be sold for commercial development and is monitored yearly for control burns, hunting, grazing and wildflower restoration. Each year this family had an open house and Mike and I went to several, which included hiking to the beginning of the Springs and seeing the flora and fauna. Just breathtaking. We all can do our part to keep what we have before it is too late. That's why I plant so many polinator flowers. My wild sunflowers are a haven for the migrating Monarchs and this year I didn't even pull up the dandelions because before all the spring flowers have bloomed, the dandelion is one of the few plants out there when the bees need it the most.
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I lived in Austin in 1978 and visited Barton Springs regularly. It had absolutely nothing to do with the girls that would frequently sunbathe topless.
My reputation as an a-hole wasn't helped by the fact that I would tell out of town visitors that Barton Springs was Texas' only natural hot springs.
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Today's photo typifies the gloominess around me. This is the spot near the foundation I think I found. It's thick with cedar. This is called a "bulbous". Cambridge Dictionary shows it as an adjective: Protruding and sticking out in a rounded shape. Classic depiction if I don't say so myself.
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Had to run to town today to get more bird seed. Today's picture shows how many birds were all waiting their turn on a very rare, icy, and snowy morning back in late January.
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Lots and lots of cardinals...do they elect a pope?
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Today's picture is of a green tree frog that I find in my plants when watering. They especially like the palm trees. Swaying on the wind.
I have a wren who has built in a nest in one of my mother-in-law tongue plants and for the second time when watering, she flew out of the nest and brushed right past me above my shoulder. I could hear the flutter of her wings. Mental note to stand further aside when watering!
