Category: Anita’s blog
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Look quick — Tiny birds that come for the winter
December 19, 2020, McAllen Monitor, Look quick — Tiny birds that come for the winter, Story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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Annoying but valuable garden mates
December 5, McAllen Monitor, Annoying but valuable garden mates, story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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Anita’s Blog — Great Fishermen of the Resaca
They all look the same — but wait, magnificent birds are distinguished one from one another — but it’s all in the details . . . .
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Build a Community Garden Together — Masks On
Welcome Home Winter Texan publication — Find the joy in building a community butterfly garden. Story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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Anita’s Blog – Valuable Garden Mates
There’s nothing quite so mystical as a crisp, heavy-dewed, humid, 73-degree morning at first light. The fences, shrubs, trees and anything that didn’t move during the night are shrouded in artfully constructed spider webs that glint and dazzle in the rays of the rising sun. Conversely, there’s nothing so annoying as walking face first into…
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Lichens — colorful, unique, complex and beautiful
Story and photos by Anita Westervelt, Texas Master Naturalist Lichens are unique organisms that have been around for about 400 million years. They are not plants, nor mosses. Lichens, defined biologically, are a complex life form that is a symbiotic (mutually beneficial) partnership of two separate organisms: a fungus and an alga. Lichens do not…