Pick up the Pace

Pick up the Pace

This First Wednesday outing was a bit unusual because we ended up going two and half miles! By this time we were all getting a bit hungry. Well, in fact I was more than a bit hungry. And off we headed to lunch at the Greenwood store! A wonderful cool crisp morning helped all of…

Cool Crisp Morning

Cool Crisp Morning

On Wednesday morning a group of us gathered for the November First Wednesday. The cool crisp air was exactly what I needed. And the sunshine felt good too! It was a grand morning to be on the prairie! More tomorrow from the First Wednesday outing. Growing Food Instead of Lawns in California Front Yards Insect…

Focus Up Close

Focus Up Close

To get the big picture, don’t forget to look at the small stuff. Get up close or you will miss out! The world’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest Why are parrots so colorful? Study points to simple chemical tweak Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…

Shared…

Shared…

Today features three photos from friends! So glad that they did. Thank you all for sharing your finds with us. I do enjoy seeing them! Thanks to Kathy, Christy, Suzanne, and Steve! The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology Astronomers Uncover the Origin of Most of Earth’s Meteorites, Shedding Light on Our Solar System’s Past Keep…

Nice Quiet Sunday

Nice Quiet Sunday

Literally it was quiet Sunday. The nearby race track surprisingly wasn’t roaring. Even though it is six or seven miles as the crow flies, sometimes it sounds like it just on top the hill. Hope your Sunday was as nice as mine! This Animal Can Scuba Dive: Meet the Lizard That Uses Air Bubbles To…

Stuck

Stuck

A few more highlights from the bottomland! For a good 10 minutes we tried to remove it from the sticker seeds of the Stickseed. It took us both to get them off with tweezers and a small twig. As you can see the last sticker was stuck too well. So we stopped as we were…

Get Down

Get Down

Continuing along with the bottomland outing. Get down close to see the slime molds on a stick! These were less than 3 or 4 mm high. Could Plants Be Intelligent? New Research Reveals That Light-Based Signals Could Be the Key To Plant “Brains” One of Texas’ most popular state parks is about to get much…

Learning

Learning

Every day has the potential to learn something new. And that makes me happy! Keep learning! Equinox sun rises due east and sets due west Scientists Play Matchmaker for Beloved Sea Snails in the Florida Keys Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466…

Didn’t Collect

Didn’t Collect

Back to the bottomland outing! It was a good morning for the slime molds so far! Darwin’s Fear Was Unjustified: New Study Confirms Evolution Despite Fossil Gaps We May Have Found Where Modern Humans And Neanderthals Became One See the Wonders of Bird Engineering in These Photos of Intricate Nests Keep looking! The more you…

More Fun-gals Hunting

More Fun-gals Hunting

On September 10th, Jeanne joined up with me for a “fun gals” outing. I still had an itch for fungi (fun-guy). 🙂 Off we headed! Indeed the fun-gals and fungi (fun-guy) were off to a good start! Scientists Discover Strange Ancient Creature That Resembles a Durian Fruit Do Marine Animals Need Wildlife Bridges, Too? Keep…