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
Along many of the boundary fences on the grasslands, the Forest Service has cleared the brush and trees. The cleared area is about twenty feet wide from the fence. So it is constructed to create fire edges to control a fire. In fact, it is called a control line. I had always just called them…
Slowly, we made our way around the base of the mesa. It was sorta like turning a “corner”. Some of the same yet different. On this side in the past, Black-capped Vireos had nested here. The last pair to nest here was four or five years ago. Before that a pair had nested there in…
Gosh was it ever windy today over at the Caddo NG. But that was pretty much everywhere in North Texas. However today, we were mostly shielded from the wind by the tree line. And the wind made it not so hot. Update on today’s mission…we found 20 plants of Baptisia. No Frosted Elfins, but then…
Switching back to the Caddo NG from a week ago. As with many a fence line in Texas, the trees sprout up. Hope everyone got some good rain yesterday. And I for one, will be glad to see warmer weather tomorrow. Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants The rise of citational justice: how scholars are making references…
As we work our way nearer to the grotto, we were drawn towards the ledges. So we have to go up, but only to the undersides of the ledges. These Super Rare Butterflies Thrive on Army Bases. The U.S. Military is Helping Them. These Teeny, Tiny Turtle Hatchlings Fit in the Palm of Your Hand…
So in today’s post, we reached our goal to the creek on the July 16th outing! Keep looking!