Yesterday I saw 4 or 5 black turkey vulture-sized birds that were bothering a lighter colored bird, possibly a hawk. They were all flying pretty high up. Strange.

Seeing more kestrals on power lines. One bird at a time.

The Inland Sea Oats we planted (did not know about the ones growing wild near the creek) is doing great. We cut back the dead growth and the mass of green leaves have shot up about 4 inches every week for  3 or 4 weeks. This plant is a keeper.

Sticky willy weeds popping up a lot this year and the sides of the roads are covered in green sticker plants with tiny yellow flowers. This picture is kind of a pretty weed but can stick you even through gloves. 20 days later I realized these are thistles.

I saw a lot of puffballs today in one area, many were very irregular on top and ragged, like this one.

This tall flower voluntereed behind the greenhouse. I could not get it in focus until I grabbed it and added my hand as a backdrop. It's called Texas Toadflax.
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These small flowers are everywhere but tiny so you won't see them from a car, but they are almost everywhere the grass is short, like deer paths.

These were only in two places on my lot. A week later there are more on the roadsides. The yellow ones are Big-Fruit evening-primrose.

The pink ones are Kunth's evening-Primrose. The small "parking-lot light" flower is Corn Salad, and the upright stalks are probably Redseed Plaintain

This cactus with "apple" buds caught me by surprise. I found these in a part of the lot I may never have seen before. Maybe the deer don't go there either and it had a chance to grow and not get trampled.

Here are some feathers I've picked up in the last few years. Turkey, Turkey Vulture?, and Red-tail Hawk left-to-right.

I keep the feathers with other stuff I've collected, so I noticed these. This arrowhead was found 30 feet from the shop, but I've never found another, even after many hours of looking. The bones belong to racoons. One came from my father-in-law who said the old-timers used to sharpen the end and to use as a toothpick, kept in their hatband. The other is "fresher" and I got from a a hunter friend's backyard who had never saw one before and was too squeamish to keep it himself, so I brought it home. These are racoon "penis" bones, yes, you heard me right. It looks like one end has a socket where it attaches. Read this link, there are some other very funny names for this bone!

These are just some pink crystalline rocks I've found. They might be a fossilized root, or maybe just a hole that filled in with minerals over time. Hunoz.