About this blog

This is the story of two nearly-40-year-olds who fell in love and decided to share a life, and a home, together. One of the individuals in this story comes with an 8-year-old, who also shares the home on a part-time basis.

But it’s really the story of our backyard in the Oak Hill area of South Austin. The backyard is the number-one reason we chose this house; it’s lush and woody and wild and backs to a wet-weather creek and greenbelt.

Here we'll chronicle the wildlife that wanders into, flies through and slithers and crawls around our backyard. We'll look at and learn about the plants that grow here. We'll also figure out how to "wildscape" our small, already largely natural plot of land.

Please join us as we discover nature at our doorstep.