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
Yesterday was such a cool morning! I just had to go for a hike at the grasslands. It was perfect weather. Articles: Smelling in Stereo: The Real Reason Snakes Have Flicking, Forked Tongues Smaller Bodies, Longer Wings, Earlier Migrations: Untangling the Multiple Impacts of Climate Warming on Birds Two cats and Gracie! What fun! Keep…
Do you stop to smell the roses? That is for your olfactory sense. My olfactory sense is not very good as some of you know. So I explore the small parts of things with my vision sense instead (use what you got LOL). Stuff that needs you to get right close to it. Here are…
It has come to my attention that it is National Pollinator Week, June 21-27th. Of course every day, we should be trying to care for our pollinators, but this week is a week to celebrate the pollinators in our lives. The future of our planet depends on the biodiversity! Only about two drops of rain…
The sky was all blue except for a wisp of a cloud on the horizon and I thought rainbow. What is this crazy woman thinking. Well it is Pride Month, so I thought I would celebrate that by finding the six colors in nature! Diversity is what makes our planet so wonderful! A Proclamation on…
We have this one particular Bois D’arc tree that just seems to attract the bugs. Every year I find lots of butterflies and other insects on it. The other Bois D’arc trees do not seem to have the same attraction. Juneteenth in Galveston – General Order No. 3 by Union Troops Marked the Official End…
Dr. Blue’s blog post today inspired me to go out looking for plants with umbels or something similar to her dill plant. Her photo was pretty great! I did find some like hers. The Prairie Parsley was one. I was very inspired by Opal Lee story. Never too old to make a difference and don’t…
Have you seen those beautiful photos of the mountains and lakes out west? On Tuesday, we had a beautiful pond right here in our own neck of the woods! Beauty is everywhere and there is no shortage here. Article: New Fossil Research Reveals Woodlice Cousins Roamed Ireland 360 Million Years Ago Interesting side note, members…
I never realized or thought about how many slime molds(myxomycetes) are around us. Of course, it is hard not to miss the tapioca slime mold like I have shown y’all before. And you have probably seen the dog vomit/scramble eggs slime mold, but after watching a presentation at BRIT brown bag lecture by Ashley Bordelon…
Early start to the day which is the only way to go now to beat the heat. The spiders were the stars of the first part of the hike. The dew was heavy and soon our shoes and pants were wet. Not a bad thing on a warm day. Watch the video in the article…
This morning one of the babies was on the concrete under the casaport. I watched the parents pay close attention to it and its siblings. I tried to put it back in the nest with its siblings, but it did not work out. I had expected them to just hunker down. They did not and…