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The internet device is broken at my house. It took forever to download the following two photos from grasslands on cell signal. So I will finish up the grasslands post tomorrow hopefully when the Nextlink person fixes it. We saw a half dozen of the Dainty Sulphurs! Love them! Devil’s Toenail fossil. Tons of them…
Ah, the temperature was so nice this afternoon. No breeze and 62 degrees, I could not have asked for better. Today’s mission on the grasslands was to check if the Trout Lilies (Erythronium mesochoreum) were blooming. The first critter was this Dainty Sulphur. A delightful find! I have not seen the usual numbers this winter….
This is the second part of our prairie scouting trip on Saturday. This is the Three Sisters farm. David told us he acquired the land in 1991. He named it Three Sisters for his three daughters. Nice name! The land was not in very good shape. David has been trying to restore it. He has…
It was so much fun yesterday to get out with a bunch of experts in the prairie. I always get to learn new stuff. Carol and Richard’s work show on their beautiful prairie, Clark Haven. Thank you for sharing it with us! As I mentioned yesterday, it was quite damp out. Makes it too easy…
Today I was over in Collin County at a couple of prairie sites. We were scouting for the Prairie Seeker training class for the Ft Worth NPAT to be held in May. It was foggy and damp all day. We even got lightly showered on at the second site. So I’m kinda of tire, but I…
A true bug did not make it through the cold. Yesterday’s rain of .71inch put a little bit water in our pond. Yellow Flax (Linum rigidum). My Engelmann’s Daisies (Engelmannia peristenia) are starting to come up. The fungus looks velvety. Bedstraw (Galium aparine) starting to come up. A fallen log. All the black looking stuff…
I have divided up the rest of the grasslands outing photos into two posts, one for today and another for the next post. This was cool gnarl. I see a head with arms wrapping around in a cloak. A nice knot hole. It was completely see-thru! This was my favorite tree roots of the day!…
What a difference in the weather from last week, eh! Our low was 39.8 and high was 80.8 degrees today. We went out on the grasslands on this great day. And with the warm temperature, I did not even need a jacket. Actually was a bit warm by the end of the hike. I will…
Low was 27.9 and high was 71.5. Perfect weather! Stump face…LOL Bee was busy but slow! Prairie Parsley (Polytaenia nuttallii) rosette getting bigger. It is a Black Swallowtail host plant. On our back pond, it was busy. Beside the obvious larger insect on top of the water, there were these very tiny (like mite size) red critters…