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Also known as First Wednesday. 🙂 Not too chilly and certainly an enthusiastic group! FYI, IT is still working on the email notification problem. It had been another great First Wednesday! James Hung: The Buzz on Native Pollinators 40 minutes but well worth it! Go James! 380-million-year-old air-breathing fish fossil unearthed in Australia Keep looking!…
We had reached the top of the barren. It’s just BS as we go down the other side. You know botany speed. LOL. And this is where I will stop today. Tomorrow the creek’s treasures! Earth’s oldest rocks reveal diverse microbial ecosystem dating 3B years Mysterious Bass Sounds Irking Florida Residents Might Just Be Fish…
It was a gorgeous day yesterday. Between chores and appointments I managed to find the time to stop to smell the roses. Ok I didn’t really smell the roses but I did stop to look close at a few plants. Ahhh, it had been a nice day! Today Jeanne and I went on another nearby…
As often is the case we poke in holes and under bark. Yeah just about anything that can be done safely. The black triangle appeared to be debris. However I could not tell if the black at the front of the larva was part of it or perhaps part of something it ate. And that’s…
I thought today was beautiful; the sunshine, hardly any wind, and a high of 35f. More from Thursday’s outing. And it was not boring. ;-). Barking Beetle Patterns Beetle Collecting 101: How to rear wood-boring beetles More tomorrow from the Jan 18th outing! A winter weather pattern change is about to bring a wild swing in…
With the cold weather birds have finally started visiting the feeders at our house. Birds here… Birds there… Award-winning close-up photos show the hidden wonders of nature Thanks Suzanne! Texas’s Weird, “Rare” Hissing Mushroom Isn’t Really All That Rare Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the…
It was time for Briar to go home again. Thanks Briar for sharing your park, the Ruby Grant Park! Thanks Claire for sharing your photos too. Meteor shower with potential fireballs to dazzle night sky on Jan 3-4 The Forgotten Hydrologist: How an Overlooked Study Over a Century Ago Helped Fuel the Colorado River Crisis…
On Saturday we headed down another trail, the multi-purpose trail. This trail allows for hikers, horses, and bicycles. We started near the our campsite. The shortcut led to the treasure find of the day! From Cardboard Waste to Sustainable Foam: Revolutionizing Packaging Ancient Insect Mysteries Solved: 312-Million-Year-Old Fossil Sheds Light on Behavior and Evolution The…
As I mentioned yesterday Jacksboro got a nice rain on Friday. The weather app said about .4″. Like all of us in North Texas (and many other parts) we need it. This post’s photos are from the Lost Creek Trail. This trail I bet is the most visited trail of the park. However the connection…