TPW MAGAZINE -- FEBRUARY PREVIEW: A year's worth of 
picnics ... we'll tell you more on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

The February issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife features a 
story about year-round picnicking in Texas. Louie Bond is 
Managing Editor.

Some of our greatest memories, I think, as kids are having 
picnics with our parents. And everything is just so wonderful 
outside, to spread out a blanket, and to bring your own food, 
and to sit back and relax. It's the best thing in the world. And so 
we start out in February, and you think, now is February a good 
picnic month? Well, it is if you go to Buescher State Park. The 
Mexican plums are in full flower, so you have a beautiful 
backdrop for your picnic. You can skip on ahead to April and go 
out to Big Bend; it's a little more than a day trip, but what a 
beautiful place for a picnic. The desert is in full bloom. In May, 
you can celebrate a breakfast picnic at Caddo Lake and watch 
the morning light play over the water. You can have a 
suppertime picnic in June at Caprock Canyons, and watch a half 
a million bats emerge in the evening. Fall is a great time for 
picnics. In October, you can head out to Falcon State Park and 
watch the butterflies, and I just can't think of a prettier 
backdrop for a picnic. And even December, you might want to 
head down to Goose Island and watch the great array of 
migrating birds. One thing's for sure, if you're going to have a 
picnic, the food always tastes better when you eat outside. :65

Thanks, Louie. The February issue of the magazine is on 
newsstands now.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.













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