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A delightful day with plentiful sunshine. The nippy weather did not dampen our enthusiasm on the First Wednesday (Nov. 1st) outing. The beauty at the LBJ Grasslands always refreshes my soul at any time of the year! Additionally to share with the First Wednesday group made for a wonderful morning. Free Admission to Texas State…
Yesterday Jerry sent me some of his favorite photos from yesterday’s outing. Here they are and thanks Jerry for sharing! Thanks again Jerry for sharing your photographic highlights! Dozens of birds named after people are about to be renamed This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On After Getting Stuck in a Sculpture…
Not only was this the first Wednesday of the month, but it also the first day of November. And of course on the first Wednesday of the month, it was an outing to the grasslands. 🙂 Though chilly this morning it was a beautiful day! More on the outing tomorrow. Keep looking! The more you…
It was fairly chilly this morning with a low of 28F. So not a hard freeze yet. But I did check my Frostweed just in case. But that was a no on “frosting” the Frostweed yet. Definitely an exciting new bird for the Pollinator Ranch! Happy Halloween! Halloween is an astronomy holiday. It’s a cross-quarter…
Vines are pretty cool. For sure y’all watched some of David Attenborough documentaries that have shown the vines climbing right? No, I have not done any movies showing the climbing. However while surfing I ran across this entry in Wikipedia about vines. There are many growth forms. Vines widely differ in size, form and evolutionary…
Are you ready for the cold? With the forecasted freeze keep your eyes on the Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) this week. Gently I coaxed it out to get a better view. Space vehicle reentries shed exotic metal particles to Earth’s atmosphere The Charming True Story of the Haunting ‘Lady in the Tree’ Scientists Settle a Long-Standing…
Over the last six days we have gotten 3.72 inches. So I bet the beavers’ pools in the creeks have gotten bigger. Additionally many of you have gotten a lot more than we have at our house. Yippee I say. More tomorrow from the creek! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
So into the creek bed we headed! Busting Myths: Scientists Settle a Long-Standing Debate About Cicadas Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
So a forewarning, you get to see what we saw. I am not holding back. When I looked up maggots I found there are some called cheese flies which I had not heard of before. The cheese flies belong to Piophilidae family. “The larvae of typical piophilids are notorious for jumping or “skipping”, especially in…
The species, Verbesina encelioides, stunk according to Shirley. While I can smell it, I certainly don’t think it smells that bad. In fact, my olfactory instrument say the Mexican Plums are really what smell bad. LOL. So the Verbesina encelioides goes by several common names including Cowpen Daisy, Golden Crownbeard, Butter Daisy to name a…