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Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
Did you get out early this morning? We all knew summer was close at hand. 🙂 My weather says it felt like 105F (actually temp was 95F). And I agree. 🙂 All of my morning was inside. These photos are from a few days ago when I scouted for the First Wednesday. Stay cool! A…
In today’s blog post you might have to zoom in. 😉 Good luck! How did you do? Alien-Looking Species Seen For First Time Ever in Ocean’s Darkest Depths Trees And Shrubs Are Burying Prairies Of The Great Plains Thanks Claire! Lepidoptera species richness and community composition in urban street trees Keep looking! The more you…
We headed down the hill! Thanks to all that came and shared. It was another great First Wed! Six Texas freshwater mussels, the “livers of the rivers,” added to endangered species list Arid Deserts Are Devouring Earth’s Rangelands, Threatening Billions Forested Wetlands Are Missing from Maps Keep looking! The more you know, the more you…
How quickly the months come. And so it was another First Wednesday outing today! What a wet start to the first half of the year here in North Texas as it was for many of you. And when June comes the weather is heating up. Well we could use a stretch of dry weather. Ahhh,…
It was good to see some sunshine today! Though it was a slow start here at our house. It was noon before the clouds gave way to the sun. Happy Pride Month! Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia Studies find frequent mowing puts poisonous weed into survival mode,…
Continuing on with the short Saturday outing. As I mentioned yesterday, the clouds were growing darker. Still no immediate rain, only a few sprinkles. I can deal with that. 🙂 The book’s title is Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America by Emily Sessa. Moreover I got it on sale at Princeton University…
Yesterday I could not stay at home. Well I hadn’t been to the grasslands in week. I have been a homebody. However I needed a break from the report on Caddo. We had a 20% chance of rain, it was cloudy, and so I thought I could squeeze a short outing in. It started to…
Yesterday we got a break in the rain. We saw sunshine! So my rubber boots and I headed out to check our little piece of heaven, our woods and prairie. And where the water was flowing into our pond, the mosquito larvae and centipede were taking advantage of their new habitat! If I had not…
Here’s the final post from the spring season Caddo NG surveys. The last field day was short as we tried to get ahead of the storms for drive home on May 22nd. So we never made it to the Giant Coneflowers. Of course it didn’t matter since we found other great treasures. And time had…