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Oh my it was so great to get some rain! Our bucket now says over an inch fell in the last few days. No complaints here. 🙂 Hope your bucket got a bunch too! Tomorrow’s post back to the Cooke County drive-about. Scientists pick and taste ancient dates for first time since the Second Temple…
The first part of the shore line consisted of the Bank People. They moved us along to see other good stuff. 🙂 Time to move on! Woman Disgusted When She Uses Tracker to See Where Her Plastic Recycling Really Ends Up This bird came back from extinction – now scientists in an aircraft are teaching…
What were we going to see now that we made it down the bank? Neat stuff no doubt. 🙂 And the promised introduction to the people. Shore got to love it! Scientists Detect Invisible Electric Field Around Earth For First Time Scientists Discover Potential Diabetes Treatment in Venom of One of the World’s Deadliest Creatures…
On the 26th (Monday) we decided on northernly drive-about in Cooke County! We found people down there. So tomorrow’s post I will introduce them. Why do Bats Fly? An Evolutionary Journey The Race to Save Mezcal From the World Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the…
Here are the last ones I looked at from the ephemeral creek. Mesmerizing! At least to me. LOL. Speedy water mite! Yes, there are water mites. They eat similar things as their terrestrial cousins. And here they are together! What a fun time at the puddle and so many life forms! Rare Endangered Lynx Spotted…
I know you have been holding your breath for more from the puddle. 🙂 As I waited for Jeanne’s return with the container I observed more. Watch quick. The water strider skates through! This little worm wiggled by and several other UAs (unidentified animals). It might be an aquatic earthworm (Oligochaeta). However some worms are…
A week or so ago I said I would show you what we found in a small pool of water in a limestone creek bed. The stream was an ephemeral creek and had only separated pools of water left. Some were deeper than others. Indeed, this particular pool was no more than a small shallow…
Spiders are such cool creatures. And the Orbweavers with their sticky webs can give you a face full if not watching. LOL. So the next day she was gone. All that remained was the web. I had hope she was off making a cocoon for her eggs. However I was not able to find a…
Pack rats, bowerbirds, and I have something in common. We all like shiny objects and parts. You never know what that shiny object might be. Jamestown: DNA Solves Mystery of First English Settlement in America Hidden Undersea Avalanches Are A Big Problem For The Internet Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
As much as I like to explore new places, home always has much to offer. Home is always full of nature’s treasures! Scientists Suggest Freezing Endangered Animals’ Cells and Preserving Them on the Moon Super-marine heatwaves describe record high sea temps This Epic Monument From 6,000 Years Ago Is a Feat of Stone Age Engineering…