Tag: Big Bend

• Mindfulness, Mountains & Snakes in the Big Bend

  A few weeks ago, it was back to the Big Bend region with Meghan Cassidy for one of the last trips for the book on mindfulness in nature. I’ve made a number of trips there during the past twenty years, and my attachment to and fascination with that region keeps growing. I felt really fortunate […]

  Michael Smith

  October 6, 2021

  Herpetology, In the Field, Mindfulness

  Big Bend, rattlesnakes, Snakes, Trans-Pecos

• The Road to the Big Bend

  June 16, 2021 The day-long drive set the stage for our arrival in the Big Bend country. The land became flatter and more arid, and the stretches between towns lengthened. We began to see dust devils spinning across short distances among the mesquite and cactus. Somewhere south of Pecos, the shadowy line of the Davis […]

  Michael Smith

  July 12, 2021

  In the Field, Mindfulness

  Big Bend, Mindfulness, Trans-Pecos