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
Continuing on with for my search for fungi in the woodland bottom! More tomorrow from the woodland bottom! Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Turns Out to Be Worth Over $1 Million Underwater spy: How herring fish farts caused confusion during Cold War These Fish Transformed Their Dorsal Fins Into Taste Buds Keep looking! The…
More from the woodland bottom that is, from the LBJ NG. Still searching for fungus. Love the fungi! Meet The World’s Oldest Fish—Presumed Extinct For 60 Million Years, Then Rediscovered In A Small Fishing Town Yukon gold miners are unearthing mummified ancient creatures and truckloads of fossils from the Ice Age. Take a look. Which…
So a couple of days ago I found a bumblebee. No big news there right? Well, this one was different than I had ever noticed before! But wait you are asking? What is the breaking news? Here it comes! But wait there is more! Having the above one on the 9th, I wondered if I…
Sometimes it just doesn’t work in your favor. However that is what makes it so fun, never knowing if you will get the target or not. It was fairly small. And it was slightly smaller than the usual Daddy Shortlegs. It belongs in the suborder of Armoured Harvestmen (Laniatores) and the family of Pied Harvestman (Cosmetidae). There…
Continuing on with Sunday’s outing. Breaking Cognitive Boundaries: Groundbreaking Study Finds Monkeys Use “Names” To Communicate Taxonomy research in Australia reveals 750 unique species in 2023 ‘Ice bucket challenge’ reveals that bacteria can anticipate the seasons Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
Well I guess you could, but I ain’t got no complaints. And it is the perfect time to explore the grasslands or whatever park you choose. My choice was the grasslands yesterday morning! What fun and I had barely made it a couple hundred feet from the car. More to come tomorrow from my Sunday…
After the rains here in North Texas, the Rain Lilies are really having a moment! The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads Thanks Suzanne! 60% of Earth’s Food Crops Aren’t Being Visited by Enough Pollinators For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood Keep looking! The more you know, the…
It had been a full day on the drive-about. So it was time to head in the direction of home. Still we had time for a few more quick stops. No doubt the fish future looks good now that we have some much needed rain in this ephemeral creek! The Cooke County drive-about had been…
It had been a while since we had headed down this lane. And it had been one of those hot days. Hopefully those hot days are behind us now. So of course we needed to check out what was new! Well, of course I took a small sample of it home. 🙂 So the dried…
Now back to the Cooke County drive-about. After the wonderful stop at Moss Lake we headed further north towards the Red River. Our first stop along the dusty road was for a kettle of Mississippi Kites! Migration time! An ethical way forward for Indigenous microbiome research Starfish’s mechanism of shedding arms during attack could help…