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
Before I get to the Prairie Seekers adventure and training yesterday… Indeed it had been the perfect day to learn about one of Ft. Worth’s natural treasures! Watch for the next Prairie Seekers training in the spring! Why Did the Spider Cross the Road? 5 Stories for Native American Heritage Month Keep looking! The more…
Happy November 1st! And what a wonderful day with the rain and a cooler temp! Can Fungi Save This Endangered Hawaiian Tree? How the Famous Lucy Fossil Revolutionized the Study of Human Origins Why you should get rid of your black plastic spatula immediately Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
Nature never fails to impress! Happy Halloween! Goblin sharks, ghost crabs and vampire bats, oh my! Ghost of the Forest: Monotropa uniflora 450 Million-Year-Old ‘Golden’ Fossil Reveals a Prize Arthropod Ancestor Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
Ooops I hit the publish button accidently. So tomorrow will be Part 1. And a morning post instead of evening for today. Did you hold your breath and turn blue. I sure hope not. So here are the next two Croton species at the Pollinator Ranch. There are two styles that bifid to the base….
Yesterday we traveled to the north. Well, not that far to the north. However it was three degrees cooler than the 99F here at home. 🙂 More from the tour tomorrow! Incredibly Rare 520-Million-Year-Old Worm Fossil Solves Ancient Evolutionary Mystery Saturn’s rings are disappearing! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
As I walked along the path a small brown lumpy thing caught my eye on a blade of grass. The moral of the story check those lumps. You never know what wonderful creatures you will find! What’s the Rush? Blind as a Bat? No Such Thing Meet the Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology With a…
Yesterday we got a break in the rain. We saw sunshine! So my rubber boots and I headed out to check our little piece of heaven, our woods and prairie. And where the water was flowing into our pond, the mosquito larvae and centipede were taking advantage of their new habitat! If I had not…
Our next stop was on the southside of Coffee Mill Lake where there is a hunter’s campground not far from the lake shore. Only the bare essentials at the camp, a cleared place to park and pitch a tent. And a fence to keep out the bears…just kidding. More likely to keep the hunters parked…
Ninty-nine would have been Shirley’s age on Friday (May 24th). And family, old friends and nature nerds were at the Thomsen Foundation on Saturday to celebrate Shirley on the annual Shirley Lusk Day walk. Thank you so much to the Thomsen Foundation, Lisa, Lyle, and Logan for another celebration of Shirley! Indeed Shirley was such…
May 9th was the last field day. Then we will go back a few days next week. And that will conclude the survey season at the Caddo NG. Indeed always new things to see and learn. And perhaps next week we can make it to the creek. Wild Find: Fossil Captures 155-Million-Year-Old Brittle Star Mid-Regeneration…