A scuba diver swims amid a school of fish at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Photo courtesy of G.P. Schmahl, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
‘You want to protect it’
‘Having all of this’
Rex and Gayle Reynolds sit on the back porch of their waterfront house on Sportsman Road in Galveston.
The porch offers sweeping views of Galveston Bay. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Birds, natural beauty of Galveston lured couple to island
‘We are beach people’
Olivia Baze, 14, walks to the waves with her surfboard on the beach near her Beachside Village home.
The Baze family moved from Katy to their weekend home full time in 2014. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
It was hard to leave after Galveston visits, so family made island their permanent home
Good migrations
White-faced ibis by Susan Ellison.
Thousands flock to upper Texas coast birding festival
In the middle of March, as daytime temperatures climb to the upper 60s and warm Gulf breezes intensify, Galveston wetlands, grasslands, ponds and bays become the stage for one of nature’s astonishing dramas — spring migration. [Read more…]
‘You have to be patient’
Don Wilkerson and Sharon Duray are avid bird-watchers and particularly enjoy searching out shorebirds. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Birding enthusiasts seek close encounters of the feathered kind
Perfect perches
An egret takes flight at the Smith Oaks Sanctuary in High Island on the Bolivar Peninsula. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Top birding spots on the upper Texas coast
‘Forgetting is easy’
Sculptor Todd McGrain has created memorials to five extinct North American bird species as part of The Lost Bird Project. The sculptures were placed where the birds were last seen in the wild. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Miller
Sculptor works to memorialize birds lost to extinction
The Eskimo curlew, an elegant shorebird, was last seen on Galveston Island in the early 1960s.
Now probably extinct, it joins the Labrador duck, the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the great auk and the heath hen — all North American birds that were once abundant and are now forever lost. [Read more…]
A gathering place
As a military wife, Catherine Polk has cooked in all manner of interesting kitchens. But, it’s the kitchen in the La Marque house her parents moved into in 1951 that holds the happiest memories. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Sunday dinners, baking with family and other happy memories fill this vintage kitchen in La Marque
Catherine Polk’s kitchen is flooded with sunshine and frozen in time.
Equipped with double porcelain sinks, double pantries and cabinets from solid slabs of Texas pine, it was the very model of a modern kitchen when it was built in 1934. It even had a posh linoleum floor and a foldout ironing board. [Read more…]
Built for a family
Michael and Janet Wegner outside their Tuscan-style villa in Friendswood. Photo by Kelsey Walling
Friendswood home manages to be warm and cozy despite its vast size
The Tuscan-style villa sits at the end of a winding lane bordered by 30-foot Cypress trees and young oaks. [Read more…]
One smart cookie
Islander’s lifelong love of baking leads to sweet career
Her kitchen smells like warm ginger, vanilla and buttery dough baking in an old-fashioned oven.
A menagerie of cookies shaped like angels, Santas, candy canes, stars, bells and reindeer are cooling on racks while islander Susie Sanclemente prepares for the most artistic aspect of her occupation: adding personality to her creations with icing and colorful decorations. [Read more…]
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