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
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….
The winter season offers up wonders of nature. And things are easier to see with most of the leaves fallen. Paleontologists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind a Prehistoric Reptile Graveyard Deep sea creatures: the amazing under-explored part of the world Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you…
Do you know the name Roxie Laybourne? She was an American ornithologist who pioneered forensic ornithology. Her specialty was identifying dead birds from their feathers to learn the types of birds that collided with planes. Laybourne died in 2003 at the age of 92. However fourteen year prior to her passing, she taught Carla Dove…