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
Good afternoon! We have gotten 2.73″ rain this morning. Gracie and I went to check it out. Our front pond completely filled but not quite over flowing yet. Dragonflies and frogs love it. The eryngo –Eryngium leavenworthii is really getting to its peak. Giant ragweed is sure pretty even tho….you know And has a pupa…
Carpenter bee found on the sidewalk. At first I thought it was hurt but by the time I got back from the walk it was gone. So maybe it just hit its head?? This was a really fast, didn’t want to stop for anything bug. Hard to get the shot. I think it is…
This is Sida – Sida abutifilia. Tiny flower, only about 1/2” across. It likes my limestone gravel driveway and it opens in the afternoon.
These are egg casings of some unknown critters. I’m trying to raise them to find out what they are. Found on the LBJ National Grasslands. This is what an individual of one of the above egg casing looks like under the compound scope at 400X Update: 9-25-2020. I now believe these are Horse or Deer…
Lichens were really pretty this damp morning. Love it!
Pill bug or roly poly bug on moss