Little Bit. That’s what a friend of ours called the Texas spiny lizard that would perch on her shoulder one summer at her grandparents’ place in Driftwood, Texas. There are…
kolenickMay 14, 2020
Named for their use of “masonry” such as mud to build their nests, mason bees are not to be confused with carpenter bees. Though both are, undoubtedly, busy bees. Unlike…
kolenickMarch 5, 2020
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond Of a puddle or pond. When it dines or sups, It bottoms ups.…
kolenickFebruary 7, 2020
The holidays are over, the Christmas lights are put away (or at least you’ve rationalized by now how it’s really quite cheery to have them up year round), and football…
kolenickJanuary 9, 2020
You may have noticed the large, wrinkled, green “oranges” recently, littering the ground around big barren trees or, almost impossibly, still tenaciously clinging to scraggly, leafless limbs. As a kid,…
kolenickDecember 11, 2019
Ah, the willow. It’s elegant, elongated branches gently swaying in the breeze is the stuff of children’s books and poetry. Ah, willow baccharis. It’s elegant, elongated branches gently swaying in…
kolenickNovember 6, 2019
Not too long after you leave the city limits of Fredericksburg, Texas, heading west toward the town of Harper, you see it—long stretches of trees devastated by oak wilt. Completely…
kolenickOctober 8, 2019
“Fox with rabies enters Texas home, attacks woman” That succinct headline from earlier this month told most of the story. Rabies is a zoonosis, a disease that is transmitted from…
kolenickAugust 9, 2019
Between 2008 and 2015, 1,610 people were killed during animal encounters. Based on sensational news reports that tend to cycle through, particularly during the summer months, one would think sharks…
kolenickJuly 10, 2019
