Feeling nature's inner cool

Summer and the outdoors

Drawing by Snowseasons/Catherine Arnold

How are the seasons where you are? It’s a long and beastly summer on the Gulf Coast, but there is a green thrum in the air and songbirds dart territorially and bats emerge at night to feed on insects, and we can now envision a downhill slope in heat and humidity in September and October. With that in mind, below is my early August footage of bats leaving Houston’s Waugh Drive Bridge, where a colony of around 300,000 roosts and began living in 1993.