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
I am so sad with big tears in my eyes to say it was time to tell Gracie goodbye. We were so blessed to have had our sweet and special girl with us for thirteen years. She had friends from all the world, both human and animal. And no one was more special then those…
So most of Friday’s drive-about was in the car. Furthermore, most of time outside the car was at the NCTC campus looking at the Cymopterus. The rest of the things found at the campus and on the roads in Cooke County follow. Indeed it was a nice day for a drive! Scientists Have Discovered a…
Yesterday, was a good day for Jeanne and I to go check on the first flower of the winter. Ok, it might not be the first flower that has bloomed. But certainly is the first special Shirley flower of a new year. National Parks Are the Backbone of Conservation – Here How To Make Them…
Jeanne did a great job sharing with us the Old Zoo Nature Trail. Thanks so much for whetting our appetite to take a walk on the wild side. And here are a few more from Jeanne. What a wonderful photo tour of the Old Zoo Nature Trail! A big thank you to the volunteers that…
Did yesterday’s post whet your appetite for the Old Zoo Nature Trail? Certainly it did mine! Hence, more of Jeanne’s photos on the trail! Tomorrow the old zoo and a couple of boulders. Maryland girl finds ancient tooth from a 50-foot-long megalodon in the Chesapeake Bay A New Chapter in Climate Science – 390-Million-Year-Old Seawater…
On Monday I had to pass on an opportunity for an outing. So I made request of Jeanne to take some photos to show me what I had missed. Goodness, I missed a good outing. Here are Jeanne’s photos. And thanks Jeanne! More of Jeanne’s photos tomorrow! Keep looking! The more you know, the more…
Sometimes the best finds are the unexpected finds. Seven days had passed… The animal might be the Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice)! Or it could be the Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme). Reading up on its life history, Wagner’s book says the only way to confirm its true identity is by raising it. So fingers crossed. And…
Why you ask is it the time? Well, the poison ivy has no leaves so tis easier not to get a rash. However, beware that you can still get a rash if you handle the vine or stems of it. But beside winter being an excellent time to avoid the poison ivy, it is a…
Oh my what a beautiful day today! Gracie insisted that I sit outside with her for awhile. I did not object. LOL. Hope you got some outdoor time too. Now back to Tuesday’s (Jan 3rd) outing. And so that was the bare bones of that Tuesday’s outing. 🙂 Extraordinary close-up images show insects as you’ve…
There are frequent finds of “trash” on the grasslands. What is trash? Seems like a simple question doesn’t it? Anything twenty-five years or older I have heard you should leave alone. Archeologists say fifty years. In archaeology there is an important concept called context. Context is, in part, the location where an artifact was found….