I am not a purist when it comes to my garden. I love non-native ornamentals such as crape myrtles, marigolds, zinnias and more. But I had a blank slate to work with, for the most part, and my dream was to have many of the stunning prairie wildflowers that grow at the nearby Wichita Mountains […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
I love the prairie. The open skies and dramatic clouds and fields of wildflowers. The bison, dickcissels, painted buntings, scissor-tailed flycatchers, elk, and the wild history. I love the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge near Lawton, Oklahoma. It borders Fort Sill, where I worked for two years as a journalist. If anybody would have told me […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
It’s been nearly three years since I added an entry to my blog. A lot has happened. The Pandemic. Hip surgery. I retired. I bought a house and moved to Oklahoma. A month later, I got a seasonal park ranger job at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. Spent 5 days in the U.S. Virgin […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
A pair of bald eagles was perched in clear view of the road as I drove to work in southern Monterey County, California this week. I parked and grabbed my Canon PowerShot and waited for the moon to align between the trees, using the car as a blind. After about 20 minutes the moon was […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
Spring comes early in Paso Robles, California. Sometimes summer comes early, too. This year, at least, summer had the decency to wait until the Summer Solstice. Summer means 90-plus temps during the day (the coast just over the “mountains” is generally 20-30 degrees cooler). We will get streaks of 100-plus days in July or August, […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” — John Muir Images from […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
Point Bouchon is owned by PG&E and visitors are allowed to hike there during certain times of the day. You must sign in and out. If you were allowed to hike far enough, you’d encounter the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. There are signs all over the nearby area warning that sirens may indicate an emergency. […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
I’ve not been very good at keeping up my blog lately. So much to do, so little time. So I’m just going to post a gallery of photos from the beginning of this year in an attempt to catch up. These are birds from Atascadero Lake, California. Photos and text copyrighted by Cindy McIntyreFeel free to reblog […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
I have had a deep love of horses since I was a girl, and even though I rarely got to ride one, I have been fortunate to spend time with the “wild” horses of Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area in northwestern Colorado when I worked as a seasonal park ranger at Dinosaur National Monument […]| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
Island Fox I had two critters in mind when I visited Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands National Park in early March, 2021. The Island Fox was one. Santa Cruz Island Scrub Jay on manzanita Th…| Cindy McIntyre's Blog
