Looking out in North Texas

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Flight ready!

ByMary June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

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….

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This is a test.

ByMary June 6, 2021July 17, 2021

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!

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Two goals

ByMary June 5, 2021June 5, 2021

Yesterday was a grasslands day. I had two goals: find two plants. The first plant (a grass), I had hoped that it would be up and blooming. The second one was a plant that I had not had on my radar before. This was a native plant that a botanist from Missouri wanted a cutting….

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I finally found one!

ByMary June 5, 2021June 5, 2021

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…

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Humpbacked

ByMary June 3, 2021June 3, 2021

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!

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Did you see it?

ByMary June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

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…

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Little Bluestem habitat

ByMary June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

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!

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Camo!

ByMary May 31, 2021May 31, 2021

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….

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Playas

ByMary May 30, 2021May 30, 2021

This is the last of the photos from the May 27th outing. We had stayed in the woods on the side of hill below the limestone barrens for the first half of the outing. There was a breeze that day, so it was pleasant even out in the sun on the barrens which was the…

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The things you find…

ByMary May 29, 2021May 29, 2021

You never know what you are going to run across out and about. And sometimes you must use your imagination to see “it” and other times “it” is obvious. Keep looking!