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
It was not quite a creek, but rather a place the rain surges down from the prairie. Eventually, it will make it to a creek. However here it just washed sand and debris from above. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
As the prairie sloped down, we headed in to the woods. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
It was not long before the blue sky started to peek through the clouds. We started on top of a mesa. Then we walked along the edge of the woods but still in the grasses. The Curious Task of Digitizing Darwin’s Beans and Butterflies Watch Leaves Change Color in a Matter of Seconds Keep looking!…
While traveling, I took several books along with me to read. First book, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future by Benjamin Vogt. A book for today’s environment and every gardener should read. Second, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson. This is a just published book that is…
In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy said there is no place like home. I agree! Today rain! And because it was, we started our walk earlier before the rain. We have gotten 1.73 inches at this moment (7pm). Certainly looks like there will be more! Sheila Strawn’s new book, Lichen Field Guide for Oklahoma and…
This is the last part of trip. And it was quite nice too! The park has about four or so miles of trails which are mostly in the shade. A great trip! These Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
Our visit was over. So it was time to head back east. Another overnight stay at Monahans Sandhills State Park. Primordial “Hyper-Eye” Discovered: Astonishing 390 Million-Year-Old Hyper-Compound Eye With 200 Lenses Tomorrow’s post … Abilene State Park! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you…
Over the course of the days, we spent at my brother’s, there was so much to find. Here in this post are more of those things! 300 years of tree rings show just how badly hurricanes have soaked the Carolinas Rethinking How We Celebrate American History—Indigenous Peoples’ Day No Nobel Prizes in Science Went to…