Light in the Dark
In addition to being a State Natural Area, Enchanted Rock is also an International Dark Sky Park. Okay, so first what exactly is the difference between a state natural area and state park? Well,...
Ephemeral View The Blog
Bluebonnets! Paintbrush! Firewheels!
Times were that we would be driving around with Steve & Gay visiting, and I seriously wondered if my wildflower bingo shouts were annoying. But hopefully just endearing in memory. It is hard to...
Spring at ERock
What an incredible season to live in the Texas Hill Country! Lady Bird Johnson’s gift of wildflowers is abundant everywhere here. There were days we hardly recognized we were in Texas; all the rain...
What is that?
What is that? How could this possibly work? Nature consistently fills us with awe and wonder. Here we check in on some of those curiosities that catch our attention and make us do the...
Same House, New View
At McKinney Falls State Park, we sat on our new porch and watched the campers and bikers go by and a zipper spider build a super cool web in a nearby tree. The sun...
On the Spiritual Road
While our spiritual corner in Austin was frequently on the corner of South 5th and Milton at the Shambala Center in Austin, we find we must now carry it along with us. So on...
Start Where You Are
We rolled into Enchanted Rock State Natural Area at the beginning of February. And here we live now for a Texas springtime in the Hill Country. Jesse is working our park host volunteer hours,...