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
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….
The fungus continues to amaze as I continue on with the grasslands outing from the 16th. I may not know exactly what species they are, but I still enjoy them! Showers today! The rain only amounted to about .15″. But the thing of it was, that each time I took Gracie for a walk I…
I never realized or thought about how many slime molds(myxomycetes) are around us. Of course, it is hard not to miss the tapioca slime mold like I have shown y’all before. And you have probably seen the dog vomit/scramble eggs slime mold, but after watching a presentation at BRIT brown bag lecture by Ashley Bordelon…
Fungi is everywhere. And some are growing really large. Jeanne had one that was ten inches across at her house. I have some eight inchers that look a bit like pancakes. Keep looking!