Living Rootless

Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. Goodbye to Big Bend National Park. Goodbye, tarantula. Goodbye, lubber. Goodbye,...

Fossil Discovery Exhibit, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. On my way out of Big Bend National Park , I stopped at the F...

Old Mines Trail, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. There's a guided walk just about every day at Big Bend, and I av...

Cactus wren nest, Chisos Basin Campground, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. The cactus wren is my kind of bird: No bi...

Walking stick, Chisos Mountains Lodge, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. There's something compelling about walking ...

Chisos Trailheads, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. The Chisos Trailheads area is adjacent to the Chisos Basin campstor...

Butte overseeing Chisos Basin Campground, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. If Monet can do 1,549 paintings of haystacks...

Beetle and bee brush, Chisos Basin Campground, Big Bend National Park. Texas. September 2017. In my campsite, a perfume slipped in a...

You gotcher bear poop and you gotcher fox poop. First, some fox poop. Two foxes' leavings, from a distance: Fox poop, Chisos ...

Window Trail from Chisos Basin Campground, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. You won't be seeing The Window on this ...

The Ant and the Grasshopper , Aesop's Fables. Credit: Milo Winter. Source: Library of Congress. Yes, well. There's Aesop...

My knight in gleaming, shining, black-and-green armor. The jaunty, yellow neckband. Those long, bendy legs. His large eyes, dark orbs...

View from my campsite, Chisos Basin Campground, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017. Some folks dropped in to say hi while I...