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
Take heart, spring is just around the corner as we still slip and slide today. With only one more cup of hot cocoa mix, it better be here sooner than later LOL. However, a lot of our native plant seeds need this cold stratification to germinate. So maybe just think of the good this cold…
OMG, it is cold today! Hence the long johns for me. Gracie, however, is always prepared with her fur coat LOL. In contrast, today’s post will take you back to our Monday’s outing when it was in the 70’s. The Unsung Heroes Who Ended a Deadly Plague The reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring…
While at Dixon a few weeks ago, I decided to collect a mud dauber nest/egg casing. It is a long bodied black wasp that is non-aggressive unless molested. Good to know right 😉 The scientific name is Trypoxylon politum. It was named in 1773. Politum comes from Latin meaning polished or smooth. Would one of the…
A few days later, Gracie and I decided to head back to the piney woods again on the grasslands with a few other two legged nature enthusiasts. Warming Temperatures Are Turning Antarctica Green For Female Yellowthroats, Beauty Isn’t Just Skin Deep Mosquitos learn to avoid pesticides after just one non-lethal dose Keep looking! The more…
A cool day and Gracie was feeling good. So a short morning outing to the grasslands was just the ticket on February 11th. 🙂 To sum up the outing, Gracie had a good time! Indeed, we did too! Also of note, the Tiny Bluet (Houstonia pusilla) and Whitlow Wort (Draba cuneifolia) are blooming now (Feb…
As we near the car for a second time, we were now in the gully that led to the grotto. Indeed we found several very interesting creatures in the pools! To sum it up, we had a grand time discovering new treasures at the Dixon Water Foundation. Thank you DWF for letting us come and…
We were now winding our way back down the hill. The robber fly is an aerodynamic acrobat that can catch its prey in midflight Lichens Are in an Evolutionary Race Against Climate Change Where Black and Indigenous History Come Together Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see,…
We made it back to the car, BUT I wanted to look for one more thing out on the barrens above the grotto. So off we went. Hidden Diversity: Undiscovered Species Are Hiding Right Under Our Noses Smithsonian Honors Female Scientists With 120 Bright Orange Statues Dinosaur Faces and Feet May Have Popped With Bright…
After being blown away by the soda straw stalactites, we decided it was time to head towards the car. This Ancient Roman ceramic pot was probably a portable toilet, study finds 6 strangest hearts in the animal kingdom A 7.5-feet-long mushroom canoe demonstrates the powerful versatility of mycelium Keep looking! The more you know, the…
This post is not going to be about trash…just telling you. 🙂 And I think you should be ready to see awesome formations. Will an Imperiled Butterfly Survive Climate Change? It Depends on Shifting Rainfall Patterns Judge Restores Federal Protections for Gray Wolves in 44 States Turning Trash Into Treasure: Chemists’ Radical Way To Make…