@sammshive.bsky.social
Retired to the Texas Hill Country, keeping bees, growing flowers and loving life. All photos are my own, taken by me and not altered.
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 157 Sunrise on another cold day in the Hill Country
26.01.2026 21:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 156 So cold in Central Texas this morning, I'm not going out for a walk. This is my backyard
25.01.2026 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 155 This photo was taken exactly two years ago today. Baby bluebonnets after a rain
24.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 154 On a small tree in a field behind my garden - lichens
23.01.2026 19:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 153 Here's looking at you says the polyphemus moth
23.01.2026 02:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 152 Resurrection Fern
21.01.2026 23:13 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 151 Just finished a quilt for my latest great-grandchild, a boy. It's simple but I like it.
20.01.2026 18:59 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 150 My new fish tank is settling in, seen here are pearl gouramis, cherry barbs, glass cats, dojo loach, siamese algae eater, a very nice community tank
19.01.2026 15:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 149 Another day in the Big Bend of Texas
18.01.2026 23:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 148 I think this little guy missed the migration with his friends and family.
17.01.2026 17:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 147 A little Sulphur butterfly just hanging out
17.01.2026 01:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 146 Texas Bluebonnets are notoriously hard to germinate, I have four coming up in my garden this year!
15.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 145 The Big Bend again, barrel cactus
15.01.2026 02:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 144 Big Bend must be on my mind, maybe a road trip - here's another, Sotol
14.01.2026 04:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 143 Another from the Big Bend, this time in the Davis Mountains, a firecracker bush
13.01.2026 00:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 142 I love the way the sun plays on these cacti in the Big Bend of Texas
12.01.2026 01:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He was! He spent a few minutes bowing and fluffing his feathers
10.01.2026 22:36 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 141 And prickly pear cactus too! So beautiful when in bloom
10.01.2026 22:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 140 This yellow-crowned night heron showed up on my back fence not long ago.
10.01.2026 01:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 139 Another picture taken in the Big Bend, this one along the River Road
09.01.2026 00:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 138 One of my favorite pictures from a trip to the Big Bend of Texas
08.01.2026 02:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 137 Just finished setting up my new aquarium, tomorrow it gets plants and fish!
07.01.2026 02:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 136 My Turk's Cap is still going strong.
05.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 135 Beautiful sunrise, I don't think tomorrow's will be as nice
04.01.2026 23:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 134 These are so cute and dainty! Summer Snowflakes
04.01.2026 01:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 133 My cactus bloomed! Amazing!
02.01.2026 23:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 132 First photo of 2026, welcoming in the new year listening to Auld Lang Syne being sung at the historic Paramount Theatre in Austin
01.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 131 What a great way to spend the last morning of 2025!
31.12.2025 20:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 130 Sunset on Siesta Key
31.12.2025 00:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Morning Walk - A photo journal of new beginnings Day 129 Such a dreary day in Central Texas today, this should brighten things up
29.12.2025 22:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
