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
In this special place, the highest point offers many wonders! California Condors Take Flight in Redwoods Scientists Solve an Origin of Life Mystery Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
This morning was a bit on the nippy side. In fact, our low was 31.7 degrees. So this was FOSF (first of season frost)! ;-0 Now I will continue on with the Montague outing from Monday. The wind was a blowing from the northeast. As we moved off the top of mesa, we headed down…
Today was a catchup day. A lot of photos to name, live animals to examine, and check the progress of the babies in foster care. And yes, I brought home a few animals yesterday. 🙂 Furthermore, I thought it would be safe to pet her. This was what she thought of that. Go away human…
Hearing from several of you, I found that not many got any real rain yesterday. And that was disappointing with all that buildup, eh. Indeed, I took a lot of photos today of interesting stuff. So this will be all today until I can sort through the photos. 🙂 Keep looking! The more you know,…
We got only .08″. And that was just enough to get a little mud on Gracie’s feet. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
Another animal on my shelf has pupated! And that makes it easier to manage with no more worrying about its food. Now my fingers are crossed that it will successfully emerge some day. This could be in a couple of weeks or it may overwinter to emerge in late spring. So now you know the…
First kudos to Alan (Shirley’s son) and all the presenters at the zoom presentation at the zoom Armchair Botany: Women Documenting the Floras of Texas and Oklahoma! The women botanists were amazing scientists! When I find out where you can watch the recording I will post the information in case you missed it. It was…
Here is a zoom presentation you should not miss! It includes these women, Geyata Ajilvsgi, Connie Taylor, Agnes Chase, and our very own Shirley Lusk! A little help… (This was my original title to the blog, but it got pushed off the front for Shirley. 🙂 She was my botany mentor as she was to…
