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
44 plants, 4 insects, 1 lizard, toads, and fungi was the count on Seek for my great-nephews! Additionally that doesn’t count the frogs they didn’t get recorded on Seek. This was their first time to use Seek, the iNaturalist app that is kid-safe! This was only the first of several firsts for the weekend! They…
Well, the rain this morning was unexpected, at least for me. And we got 1.47″! Humans Have Smoked Meat For Almost 2 Million Years, Study Suggests Research shows rivers release ancient carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, uncovering a greater role for plants and soil in the carbon cycle Native Seed Libraries Stand Up for Science!…
I sure am enjoying this cooler weather. Could humpback whales be trying to communicate with us? Thanks Judy! Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger? Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese temples The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to…
So don’t get too excited. It was not the vultures. 🙂 There’s an Invisible Line That Animals Don’t Cross. Here’s Why. Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Spotted in Ancient Treasure Stash What to know about stinging Asian needle ants detected in 20 states June 14, No Kings Sanger TX, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Sanger Square,…
Yesterday I posted the cute toad. Today is the rest of our finds! We all enjoyed the unusually cool June First Wed morning. Indeed good stuff! US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war How conservation icon David Attenborough holds onto hope They Walked? 160-Million-Year-Old Footprints Rewrite Pterosaur History Mosquito…
Now I was heading into the woods! Indeed, it had been a great day! Science in War, Science in Peace: The Origins of the NSF Amazing Fossil Preserves Teenage Tyrannosaur’s Last Meal New Research Reveals That Chimpanzees Are Capable of Complex Communication – And We’re Finally Listening Mosquito Bucket Challenge June 14, No Kings Sanger…
So I love to see new places. But like Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) there is no place like home. 🙂 With a little persuasion the Giant Swallowtail cat poked out their horns (osmeterium)! Oh yeah it is good to be back home! Science rewritten: Humpback whales give birth while still migrating Watch Vampire Bats Run…
Yesterday we did our first hike to Lake Eva! Amazing! CT Scans Reveal Hidden Secrets of Giant Hailstones A landslide in a Greenland fjord echoed around Earth for 9 days Proposed Rule: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants Let your voice be heard! Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking! The…
We concluded our trip to the Caddo NG late Thursday. How can you be sure a hairy looking one is a Usnea? All Usneas have a stretchy center cord. Indeed it was a very successful week at Caddo NG! Now we both have a lot of data and ID’ing to do. 🙂 Plant Sex and…