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
We feel very lucky to have a little slice of a prairie. The front field used to be farmed for cotton back in the 1930’s. It has Little Bluestem, Indiangrass, other grasses and forbs now. The back field is also going back to natives after fifteen plus years of resting. We still have a lot…
It was a fairly pleasant start to the day at 76 degrees. But at 10am the wind turned from the south to the northwest and the temp dropped to 65. Then by the afternoon it rewarmed up to 72. And the wind was windy all day. Adapting national parks for wheelchair hiking Keep looking! The…
When Claire was growing up, we often had spirited discussions about this bird or that bird. I recall one time at the Ft Worth Nature Center when she saw a Great Blue Heron while I saw a vulture. We both thought the other was crazy, but as it turned out we were both right LOL….
The weather was perfect for an outing to the Dixon Water Foundation. Furthermore, it is so delightful to have Claire along to share the morning with me. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Feels like spring has arrived with all the new life popping up! OK Who knew skunks sound like MUPPETS? Aurora: the science behind one of the most beautiful natural phenomena Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Life and death, you can not have one without the other. A longtime ago, a wildlife biologist told me that the worse thing that came out of television/movies was “Bambi”. It forever has shaped the way people thought about nature in unrealistic way. My hope is that people today will change that attitude. There are…
That was the difference at our house between yesterday and today! So it was 92 yesterday and yep you got it, only 72 for a high today. Furthermore, that wind was howling overnight as well. The Quest to Find the World’s Largest Bee Many of These Plants Older Than Dinosaurs Face Extinction Betty Reid Soskin,…
There are three bigger lakes on the northern units located above Hwy 82 in Fannin County. Totally different ecosystem in the northern units than the Blackland Prairie of the lower Ladonia Units. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.