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
August certainly is setting up to be a hot one! We were just shy of 100 today. So yes August has “snow”! 😀 Panacea for Pain Is Abundant in the Fields in North Texas Traditional Uses, Pharmacological, and Phytochemical Studies of Euphorbia: A Review ‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12…
Wow, we had a low of 69 degrees. Indeed it was hard to believe. Well, that won’t last long. LOL. Hope you enjoyed the “cool” morning too. Deep-Sea DNA Breakthrough Reveals Hidden Oceanic “Superhighway” Surprise! Potatoes and tomatoes are linked in evolution See 11 Stunning Images of Mangrove Forests and Their Wildlife, Showcasing the Trees’…
You know a few degrees really does make a difference. So you can be sure I love the cooler 90 degrees high! Tiny or not, tis fun to look! Did arachnids originate in the sea? A new study suggests so World megaflash lightning record set in U.S. Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures…
Another great start to the day with clouds! In the short time, we got 0.33″! The Fossil That Fooled Harvard: Scientists Solve 160-Year Evolutionary Mystery Static electricity sense could be factor in evolution of extreme body shapes of treehoppers Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking! The more you know, the…
Often times I go looking for those that shelter under a fold on a leaf. Mostly I just find a lot of frass. Hey frass happens. LOL. So maybe you will only find a lot of frass looking. However when you do find a larvae, I hope you smile too. 🙂 Grand Canyon Fossils Offer…
If you look up Hyla (tree frog) on Wikipedia, it says this genus is no longer in the Americas. Moreover if you look up Gray treefrog in Wikipedia it goes by the scientific name of Dryophytes versicolor. The other treefrog, Cope’s gray treefrog goes by Dryophytes chrysoscelis. To confuse the matter even more iNaturalist still…
The song birds are still laying eggs. And these bluebird nestlings are the only ones I have right now. It was hatching! So the process took about 8 minutes for them to get free from the shell. I sped up the mp4 800x. What a wonderful privilege to witness! Mutualism Under Pressure: New Research in…
The Arizona Crested Coralroot stop was a good one! So besides the Coralroot we found two cats. What a great stop, the Arizona Crested Coralroot and two cats! 🙂 Texas using $1 billion fund to develop new state parks Thanks Suzanne! Millipede Molecules Scramble Ants – And Might Help Heal the Human Brain 545-Million-Year-Old Footprints…
So I got a lead on a new plant for me. Off we went to locate them. Before we get to the plant, we watched for other interesting stuff. Certainly a cool plant! Paleontologists Discover a ‘Marvelous’ Triassic Reptile That Sported a Sail of Feather-Like Structures on its Back What is corn sweat, and is…