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
Some days are more remarkable than others. But certainly there are always treasures to find! The First Park Visitor Center Celebrating LGBTQ+ History A Fossil Mystery, Solved by a Spin Redefining Planets Across the Universe Globally Renowned Ancient Rock Art in the Negev Desert Faces Imminent Destruction Keep looking! The more you know, the more…
In today’s blog post you might have to zoom in. 😉 Good luck! How did you do? Alien-Looking Species Seen For First Time Ever in Ocean’s Darkest Depths Trees And Shrubs Are Burying Prairies Of The Great Plains Thanks Claire! Lepidoptera species richness and community composition in urban street trees Keep looking! The more you…
The phylum Arthropoda are the invertebrates. Moreover this group comprises (by some estimates) over 97% of the animal species on our planet! Therefore take a moment to soak that in. They are the animals that have: three or more pairs of jointed legs (some mites have less, many insect larvae have none), body segmented, bilaterally…
Our goal this survey season was to locate more patches of the Oklahoma Grasspink (Calopogon oklahomensis). At this point we have not had any luck. That leaves us only one thing to do, just continue to have fun! 😉 Why my heart beats for Nigeria’s endangered bats Diana Wall obituary: ecologist who foresaw the importance…
Well not the last stuff ever. This is only the last treasures from the Caddo NG trip last week. LOL. Heck we will be heading back again next week for more surveying! 🙂 So much fun at Caddo NG! Resting up then back again in a few days…yahoo! New Research Reveals That Dinosaurs Were Not…
So now we were finished with lunch so we headed out to the trail! More tomorrow from Parkhill Prairie! Here’s an opportunity from the Dixon Water Foundation. Please feel to pass this on to anyone you might think would be interested. Thorny Task Silent Screams: Unlocking the Mysteries of Ultrasonic Communication in Frogs 3,000-Year-Old Pottery…
With only 3 days until the eclipse we have gone camping to get in the zone! We made our reservation at Lake Lavon. This of course gives us time to explore the area and get here before the crowds. Indeed a lovely start to our eclipse adventure! From Dinosaurs to Hummingbirds: New Family Tree Revises…
Some of the most interesting and enlightening discoveries are sometimes made by someone just noticing the unusual. Though I have not made any of these big “things”. However I keep looking and having fun. Just my inner kid. LOL. A History of Total Solar Eclipses Seen by Astronauts From Outer Space First-of-Their-Kind Pics Capture The…
My IT team has figured out the notification problem. Long story short security issues changes had been made. Moreover I do not understand it one bit. However a huge thank you to my IT team! Did you get outside this afternoon? In fact it couldn’t have been prettier. Today’s birds included Cedar Waxwings, Northern Cardinals,…