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
Over four days last week at the Caddo NG we found three box turtles! So I waited almost ten minutes for her to move away! But it was worth the wait to see her gorgeous markings! Well according to this link, eye color is not enough to determine gender alone…Mr. or Ms. Box Turtle? Five…
Back in the open prairie! And once it warmed up a bit the insects started to stir. The Genetic Blueprint of Flight: New Research Reveals How Mammals Evolved To Glide Bird migration forecast maps Sign up here for Local bird migration alerts and turn off your lights! Besides birds, the insects will appreciate lights out…
So many of the areas on both the LBJ and Caddo National Grasslands have had a lot of disturbance. Some plants will thrive in those areas. Today’s post is back at the Caddo NG. Haunting Sounds From The World’s Largest Living Thing Recorded There’s an Awkward Link Between Plastic Production And Pollution We’re Not Considering…
It was very nice to see human friends at the NPSOT Trinity Fork plant sale this morning. Additionally the chapter sold almost all the plants. Yeah! If you missed it, put it on your calendar for next year to get your native plants! However get there early to get the best selection. 🙂 Now on…
On April 14 I invited a guest to live inside with us. It took 12 days before it was time for it to leave us. Thank you to the Variegated Fritillary for enriching our lives. Now it will join its mates! A woodpecker’s interest in a doorbell leads to headache for homeowner First glowing animals…
Usually it is the larger plants and animals that we notice everyday. However, its the small stuff that we know so little about. So how did you do? Did ya find them both? The first find the critter was a Cixiid Planthopper (Cixiidae). Second one was a tiny spider. Indeed I love finding all these…
Still at the Caddo NG. Many of these plants I don’t see very often. And so it is easy for me to forget what I figured out a year or two ago. I feel lucky if I can remember one or two new plants from year to year. 🙂 How to freeze a memory: putting…
This is the second field survey week at the Caddo NG this spring. Two more are planned in May. My goal is find additional patches of the rare orchid, Oklahoma Grasspink (Calopogon oklahomensis). Indeed while just looking we find the most interesting treasures nature has to offer! Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness…
I am back at the Caddo NG this week. So that will means lots of fun! On Sunday afternoon Jeanne and I took our walk on the Bois D’arc trail at our base camp at Bonham SP. We were not disappointed…good stuff. 🙂 Love its locomotion! One more thing. While my favorite person was holding…
Today I have better signal. Yeah! So here are some more photos from the Cooke County prairies. Indeed open your eyes to the beauty right in our back yards! This Ancient Lineage of Cryptic Plants Is Millions of Years Old. They May be Permanently Gone in Decades Scientists Discover Ghostly New Species 80 Feet Underground…