Welcome to my nature blog! I love sharing my photos of North Texas! I will keep looking out and hope you do too.
Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
Usually it is the larger plants and animals that we notice everyday. However, its the small stuff that we know so little about. So how did you do? Did ya find them both? The first find the critter was a Cixiid Planthopper (Cixiidae). Second one was a tiny spider. Indeed I love finding all these…
Still at the Caddo NG. Many of these plants I don’t see very often. And so it is easy for me to forget what I figured out a year or two ago. I feel lucky if I can remember one or two new plants from year to year. 🙂 How to freeze a memory: putting…
This is the second field survey week at the Caddo NG this spring. Two more are planned in May. My goal is find additional patches of the rare orchid, Oklahoma Grasspink (Calopogon oklahomensis). Indeed while just looking we find the most interesting treasures nature has to offer! Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness…
I am back at the Caddo NG this week. So that will means lots of fun! On Sunday afternoon Jeanne and I took our walk on the Bois D’arc trail at our base camp at Bonham SP. We were not disappointed…good stuff. 🙂 Love its locomotion! One more thing. While my favorite person was holding…
Today I have better signal. Yeah! So here are some more photos from the Cooke County prairies. Indeed open your eyes to the beauty right in our back yards! This Ancient Lineage of Cryptic Plants Is Millions of Years Old. They May be Permanently Gone in Decades Scientists Discover Ghostly New Species 80 Feet Underground…
It was incredible on the prairies in Cooke County today! Every year I try to make it up to these prairies. Furthermore every year I am so gratefully to the the land stewards that care for these prairies! Thank you!!! More from the Cooke County’s incredible prairies tomorrow! U.S. wildfire season outlook suggests a slow…
Another guest photo, this time from Suzanne! Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house Nature’s Architects: Researchers Discover the Secret of How Termites Build Their Giant Nests Amazingly, Some Bumblebees Can Survive Underwater For a Week Spring 2024 Plant Sales Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
Indeed this post is not about current events on the news. Furthermore it is about nature in action. And Kathy and Gary witnessed a cool behavior! She shared it with me. So now I am sharing with y’all. So you may have noticed in the still shots that the female was arching her back. Now…