If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
The blog prompt for today got me thinking about how much I enjoy Texas State Parks and how many opportunities there are for volunteers like me and my Master Naturalist friends to help out and educate the public at them.
View across the dam at Meridian State Park
Sadly, there’s no State Park in Milam County, so our El Camino Real Master Naturalist Chapter have had to make our own opportunities, like our Wildscape that Catherine Johnson spearheaded. Another group is working on a project at Sugarloaf Mountain, a cool site in the county.
We don’t have much public land, if any in Milam County. Thank goodness someone donated land for this park!
So, if I had anything named after me, I’d love it to be a State Park in Milam County. Of course, our ranch isn’t big enough to be one. And we don’t own it all ourselves. So I’d have to get really wealthy and buy up some scenic land. It’s just a dream, but I’ll help out anyone else who wants to create one!
I hope my park would have cool beehives like the one I found yesterday on the dam! Watch this video!
Until the Suna State Park is developed, I’ll just keep visiting others and documenting the biodiversity at each one.
Lee and I talked about printing some of our best photos to decorate Seneca the motor home. This is a juniper hairstreak on antelope horn milkweed.
The next trip will be to a Corps of Engineers park with people from our former church. That will be more social camping! Enjoy more photos from yesterday. Which do you think would make good wall decor?
Red admiralTexas beautiesNarrow leaf poccoon whatever that isMore purple paintbrush LakesideSpillwayVerbenaEngelmann daisyTexas yellow star, I thinkPossumhaw Red admiral on juniperTrailCactus coreid bug, maybeBack of damOrange sulphur YuccaBuckeye Little egg
The person behind The Hermits' Rest blog and many others. I'm a certified Texas Master Naturalist and love the nature of Milam County. I manage technical writers in Austin, help with Hearts Homes and Hands, a personal assistance service, in Cameron, and serve on three nonprofit boards. You may know me from La Leche League, knitting, iNaturalist, or Facebook. I'm interested in ALL of you!
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