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The drought foragers
Wednesday afternoon I saw my first rainbow of this brutal summer. When I stepped out of my guitar teacher’s house in north Austin, it started raining…
Christopher Brown
Aug 14
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Some August auspices
Wednesday morning the edgeland cur and I set out at daybreak for a walk through the feral zone behind the industrial park. Agents of the limited…
Christopher Brown
Aug 7
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Bambi's bones
Wednesday morning as my daughter and I drove to school we saw a black dog loping along the main road near our home. A big intact male, its coat the…
Christopher Brown
Jul 24
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Hothouse birds and Nostradamus nerds
Friday afternoon I spotted a fisherman pulling a Bird out of the river, on a long line hanging down from the old bridge. I couldn’t see the human at the…
Christopher Brown
Jul 10
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With the Marfanistas
When we headed out from Austin to West Texas the Thursday before the summer solstice, the Saharan dust cloud was still lingering over the landscape. The…
Christopher Brown
Jun 26
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Nomads of the Anthropocene
The first sunflowers of the summer bloomed in our yard on Saturday morning, opening up at daybreak to suck up the solar energy of a triple-digit June…
Christopher Brown
Jun 12
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At the wild Phasmid rodeo
The season of the Devil Riders announced its arrival with the pair of Phasmids I found copulating on the back of my neck on Memorial Day. I’m not sure…
Christopher Brown
Jun 5
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The Big Molt
Tuesday night I found an empty can of Freedom in the parking lot of the strip mall where I stopped to pick up a couple of avocados on my way home. They…
Christopher Brown
May 22
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Slackers of the Apocalypse
The swallowtails heralded the arrival of real Texas summer this week, big wings working their way through muggy air that heated up to just short of…
Christopher Brown
May 15
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Maypoles and telephone poles
Thursday morning the edgeland cur and I spotted this tree duck on a telephone pole across from the abandoned AT&T maintenance yard. You can always hear…
Christopher Brown
May 1
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Spring fevers
It hasn’t rained much this spring, but it has rained enough to green up our corner of the world for that brief season before Texas gets insanely hot and…
Christopher Brown
Apr 24
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Rare Earths
Sunday morning we watched the sun rise over downtown Houston through the window of our hotel room by the loop highway, and what dialed up with first…
Christopher Brown
Apr 10
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