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
We did not stay long in the creek bottom as I needed to head back to the house. Surely when time allows, we will head back to further explore the area. The world’s largest organism is slowly being eaten by deer Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you…
If you have been following along with my posts, you know we almost always end up in a gully or creek. That day was no exception LOL. The following is what we found that day along the creek. A fossilized egg laid by an extinct, human-sized turtle holds a rare jackpot Macro Photos Reveal the…
This morning it got down to 25 degrees. And that qualifies as a hard freeze. So if you have Frostweed in your garden, I hope that you checked it out this morning. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Gobble, gobble, gobble, tuk, yike, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, tuk, yike, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, tuk, yike, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, and gobble! Well, I did say talk turkey and in their native language. This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret…
Yesterday morning was a grasslands day! Yahoo! I need my grasslands fix or is it just a nature fix? Whatever it is, definitely is something I need. Eerie video captures elusive, alien-like squid gliding in the Gulf of Mexico First-Ever mRNA Vaccine for Lyme Disease Shows Promise in Guinea Pigs Keep looking! The more you…
Can I find anything at home of interest? Of course I can! Here are today’s finds! Snakes Diversified Explosively After the Dinosaurs Were Wiped Out 66 Million Years Ago The Moon’s Top Layer Has Enough Oxygen To Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
Will we ever run out of treasures and discoveries at the grasslands? With all the wonderous fauna and flora waiting to be found, I do not see how. This concludes the July 20th outing! Every trip to the grasslands brings more treasures to discover! Keep looking!
Still in the drainage to the pond, we continue on with the July 20th outing. We discover more fungi, insects, and a new plant for me. Butterflies Cross the Vast Sahara Desert in Longest-Known Insect Migration This Sponge Fossil May Be the Earliest Record of Animal Life Keep looking!
As we headed down into the pond drainage ditch…the Dog Lichen or Pelt Lichen(Peltigera) was spotted! So lucky to have another great find for the grasslands. So many treasures to be discovered. Keep looking!
Do you remember Horton the Elephant? I have always loved that story by Dr. Seuss! Horton tries to save a small world that no one can see or hear in the book titled “Horton Hears a Who”. When I peer through the microscope, I think of Horton and the scientists that are doing the same….