A local guide

A local guide

The grasslands called to me again on July 20th! I was hoping for the best weatherwise (meaning not too hot). My grasslands buddies hoped so too. And as always, many interesting sights were seen! Stay tuned for more on the July 20th outing! Keep looking!

Pipevine!

Pipevine!

The July 16th outing saga continues! As we started to climb in elevation, we happened upon the Woolly Dutchman’s Pipevine (Aristolochia tomentosa)! Of course, the elevation climb is really not that much. But this area did not have standing water as it was on a slight slope above the bottomlands. Keep looking!

Big as plates

Big as plates

The fungus continues to amaze as I continue on with the grasslands outing from the 16th. I may not know exactly what species they are, but I still enjoy them! Showers today! The rain only amounted to about .15″. But the thing of it was, that each time I took Gracie for a walk I…

Our goal

Our goal

The goal was to reach the creek. So we continued deeper into the bottomland. So more to come in tomorrow’s post of the grasslands outing! Article: This article is several years old, but certainly fascinating I thought…Bumblebees confused by iridescent colors Keep looking!

Bottomlands

Bottomlands

It was cloudy start to the day with the nearby rumbles so it was a bit dark in the understory yesterday. Most of our time was spend in the bottoms seeing what we could see. And we found plenty to enjoy. Article: The Strangely Scientific Endeavor of Making Ice Cream Keep looking!

Rumble, tweets, and snorts

Rumble, tweets, and snorts

Today was a grasslands day! Gosh was it a great one. I took well over four hundred photos of interesting things. Don’t worry as per my usual many were repeats and really bad photos. Not included in the documentations were the rumbles, tweets and snorts. We heard the rumbles of a thunderstorm nearby, but never…

Texas Cooter

Texas Cooter

So July 8th was an awesome day. There is always so much to find and enjoy on the grasslands! On this pond, we saw a Banded Pennant dragonfly. It was too far out for a photo. However it was pretty with the all black abdomen and three black spots on each wing with a brown…

Milky sap

Milky sap

There was quite the variety of colors on the outing. Yesterday, I showed you the chocolate and yellow mushrooms. Here are a few more colors to add to the rainbow of mushrooms. Articles: Narwhal Tusks Point to Changing Arctic Conditions Other Mammals, Not Dinosaurs, Kept Our Ancestors Down Biofuel Cell: Wearable Device Turns the Touch…