Category: Anita’s blog
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Anita’s Blog – Snakes and Ticks — Not a Rock Group
The weather lately has not been to my liking. On pleasant days though, I’ve been out and about, working in my yard or at Ramsey Park. At home, I have weed-eated with a vengeance, freely stepped in thick vegetative growth and rummaged around bare-handed in my over-grown butterfly garden. The weather is cold, so it’s…
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Anita’s Blog – Disturbances — the poem
This is dedicated to all who have read the three-inch thick Texas Master Naturalist training manual. If you aren’t familiar with slam poetry, it is like some of Bob Dylan’s 60s/early 70s ballads in that it is born out of social consciousness. Disturbances by Anita Westervelt Do I have a cause? Did I…
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Anita’s Blog – Gyotaku — Japanese Fish Printing
Tony Reisinger’s classes are always fun and entertaining. One of his most popular is fish printing. The classes fill up as soon as they are announced. If you’re squeamish, you’ll soon get over it if you just pick up the dead fish, squirt it with dish soap and gently scrub it with a brush —…
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Anita’s Blog – Brush Piles
Four hours hard labor; Nine happy people Thursday, February 12th the weather was perfect for demolition and reconstruction. We were to clear an overgrown area on Ebony Loop near Coral Bean Cove in Hugh Ramsey Nature Park. The dual purpose project included making brush piles with the debris. Things to consider in designing brush piles Ultimately,…