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
I am almost sure all of you know how vital nature is to our mental health. In fact some doctors are prescribing nature to their patients. Get out and move another study says. Really hope none of them hit a rock, eh. A fine cold Sunday was perfect for a visit to Hagerman! “Mummified” Bees…
That was the temperature this morning at our house. And that can only mean one thing… So I wonder with the 24F this morning if tomorrow will bring a lot of leaf dropping? Time will tell, eh. 😉 Female Rangers ‘Don’t Go All Alpha Like the Men’ to Protect a Forest Momentous Discovery Shows Neanderthals…
The noun encore; a repeated or additional performance of an item at the end of a concert or act, as called for by an audience. If you read yesterday’s comments there was a question about an encore. Well, it just so happens there is. LOL And there I was sitting watching and waiting for something…
A stinkhorn (Phallus) started to push it way out of the hard packed soil in the path near the house. Jim spotted it. Hence being close to the house it was the perfect opportunity! Yes a time lapse movie that covered ten hours of the day! 🙂 Don’t worry the movie is only 39 seconds….
American Indian Heritage Day (Friday). I had accomplished my goal of getting the location data points of the Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) so I decided it would be fun to do a quick walk in the other direction. This concludes the Tuesday morning outing. Could Wooden Satellites Reduce Space Junk? The First Is Set to…
A lot of plants this season have been up to three weeks later than usual. In fact some plants that normally bloom in the spring are re-blooming like Redroot or Jersey-tea (Ceanothus herbaceus). Well, on the Tuesday morning outing I found a plant that surprised me. I hope none of you ate too much today….
As I proceeded along I found multiple stages of the Shaggy Mane or Inky Cap Mushrooms (Coprinus comatus). This was one of the species featured in yesterday’s post. These mushrooms can be found on disturbed ground which includes the side of roads and creek banks. The MushroomExpert.com is one of my go-to places for information…
I needed to tie up a few loose ends on some location data points that did not take previously. The phone had not done a good job on the coordinates and elevation. So today I finally got around to retrieving the correct data. Pretty cool, eh! More to come from my morning walk tomorrow. 🙂…
That is what I am after hearing about Kathy’s mushroom experience! And besides just pretty to look at during the daylight hours, the genus Omphalotus is bioluminescent. Kathy has tentatively ID’d it as the Southern Jack O’lantern (Omphalotus subilludens)! And that should be bioluminescent. Well Kathy went back at night, sitting for 10 minutes to…
A mostly dreary day with a splash of rain. And I for one will take any rain we can get now. However briefly I did see some sunshine. Now to the sweet, shaggy, and stinky. 🙂 Last but not the least, the stinky. So today was sweet, shaggy, and stinky! ‘Lost City’ Deep in The…