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
Ok, this is like a cross-post with The Dr Blue’s Cast Iron Forest to Skillet. You know how TV series connect similar plots and characters together. LOL Except wait, I do not attempt to grow anything. Nature is in total control of our blackberries. The blackberries just showed up one year in our field. The…
I believe we have had enough rain for a week or two. Mushrooms should be very happy. It looks like we are going to be hot, sticky and I bet plenty of mosquitoes too. We didn’t get near the amount of rain as many in the area got. We got a total of .68″ today….
I am testing out some stuff on the working of wordpress. Hopefully you can see the difference in the loading of the photos. The movie is quite big 26MB. Keep looking!
What did I find you are asking. I have been hoping to find a nest of a Dickcissel for years and yesterday was my day! I had hope to see their blue eggs, but finding the nestlings is pretty neato too! Gracie and I were starting out on the afternoon walk when I heard the…
It was a windless day and I only got sprinkled on once. There were several cool finds today. Article: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Legacy and Editions of Her Metamorphosis Keep looking!
Hope you didn’t sleep thru the sunrise this morning. For May, we got 5.29″. June is trying its best to catch up to May. I am sure many of you have got much more. Here is an article for the computer geeks that are also into the other sciences: Old-school computing: when your lab PC…
Little Bluestem is such a beautiful grass! We are fortunate to live in an area which has it. Lots of cool stuff to find in the grasses and I barely looked 🙂 Article: Talking to Animals: Using AI to Decode the Language of Whales Keep looking!
The Synchlora genus of moths belongs in the family of Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) which are commonly called inchworms. The Synchlora genus has the remarkable habit of adorning themselves with bits of flowers for camouflage. I found this one on grass but the Lyre-leaf sage is very thick here. That is what I suspect it used for camouflage….
