Circling

We were visiting some of my favorite Shirley spots on our Thursday (June 27) road trip.

A pretty roadside bank!

Montague County has multiple of these mounds. Some have even been given names like Dye Mound which Shirley would point out. But with the handy-dandy internet I found this one was named Tadlock Hill. The elevation is 1198ft and prominence of a 105 ft.

Potato-vine (Ipomoea pandurata)!

The Potato-vine is fairly uncommon in North Texas. Further east some consider it a nuisance. The big tubers were reportedly used by Native American. However FNCT also reports, it to be poisonous.
Someone chose a group of buds to make a shelter!

How do the leaves breathe? Surely it hopes for a rain to wash off the dust.

Just down the hill was a creek. Too steep for us to go down. A rope would have been needed. LOL.

The Cliff Swallows were circling above us.

The Estuary Smothered by a Thousand Logs

‘Desert moss can survive on Mars,’ claim scientists from China

Texas armadillos are actually a different species than previously thought, study says Thanks Suzanne!

Keep looking!

The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know

9 Comments

  1. Great video on the cliff swallows. I drive by a large group almost every day. Plus, the barn swallows around my house keep me mosquito-free all summer. That creek does look fascinating.

  2. I’m sorry that lovely creek was not accessible. The topography in that area is so interesting.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *