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
Are you ready for the cold? With the forecasted freeze keep your eyes on the Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) this week. Gently I coaxed it out to get a better view. Space vehicle reentries shed exotic metal particles to Earth’s atmosphere The Charming True Story of the Haunting ‘Lady in the Tree’ Scientists Settle a Long-Standing…
Over the last six days we have gotten 3.72 inches. So I bet the beavers’ pools in the creeks have gotten bigger. Additionally many of you have gotten a lot more than we have at our house. Yippee I say. More tomorrow from the creek! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
So into the creek bed we headed! Busting Myths: Scientists Settle a Long-Standing Debate About Cicadas Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
So a forewarning, you get to see what we saw. I am not holding back. When I looked up maggots I found there are some called cheese flies which I had not heard of before. The cheese flies belong to Piophilidae family. “The larvae of typical piophilids are notorious for jumping or “skipping”, especially in…
The species, Verbesina encelioides, stunk according to Shirley. While I can smell it, I certainly don’t think it smells that bad. In fact, my olfactory instrument say the Mexican Plums are really what smell bad. LOL. So the Verbesina encelioides goes by several common names including Cowpen Daisy, Golden Crownbeard, Butter Daisy to name a…
Get outside and get the stink off was a favorite saying of my dad. It was his way to get us out of the house. However I still like the saying because I always like to get outside. Furthermore the weather does not hold me back. And today was no exception. 🙂 Then the rain…
It was a morning spent at the grasslands in a creek bottom and the nearby bottomland. However you will have to wait for that until I get it all sorted and named. Insect bites: The future of snacking is looking a little buggy NPSOT 2023 Fall Symposium Click to Register! – Prairie Seekers – Fall…
Even though it was mostly an overcast today, I still had bright spots in my day! 🙂 Twas a nice Sunday! Manatees might return to the endangered species list Groundwater in The US Is Becoming Dangerously Salty, Scientists Warn Neanderthals Might Not Be The Separate Species We Always Thought Keep looking! The more you know,…
So what did you spot today? Here’s what I found. 🙂 It was a very energetic little thing! Late last night I ID’ed as a Sunflower moth (Homoeosoma electellum)! And appropriately it was on a sunflower. Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and landscape The Glowing Secret That Mammals Have Been Hiding…
Geez, I thought the warm weather was over. Wrong! It got up to 92F today. Good to know that there are rain chances and cooler weather forecasted in the upcoming week. Fingers crossed. The First Black American to Reach the North Pole Indigenous tribes saw the ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse in a different light Early…