Welcome to my nature blog! I love sharing my photos of North Texas! I will keep looking out and hope you do too.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Continuing on with for my search for fungi in the woodland bottom! More tomorrow from the woodland bottom! Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Turns Out to Be Worth Over $1 Million Underwater spy: How herring fish farts caused confusion during Cold War These Fish Transformed Their Dorsal Fins Into Taste Buds Keep looking! The…
More from the woodland bottom that is, from the LBJ NG. Still searching for fungus. Love the fungi! Meet The World’s Oldest Fish—Presumed Extinct For 60 Million Years, Then Rediscovered In A Small Fishing Town Yukon gold miners are unearthing mummified ancient creatures and truckloads of fossils from the Ice Age. Take a look. Which…
Continuing on with Sunday’s outing. Breaking Cognitive Boundaries: Groundbreaking Study Finds Monkeys Use “Names” To Communicate Taxonomy research in Australia reveals 750 unique species in 2023 ‘Ice bucket challenge’ reveals that bacteria can anticipate the seasons Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
It had been a while since we had headed down this lane. And it had been one of those hot days. Hopefully those hot days are behind us now. So of course we needed to check out what was new! Well, of course I took a small sample of it home. 🙂 So the dried…
Some days are more remarkable than others. But certainly there are always treasures to find! The First Park Visitor Center Celebrating LGBTQ+ History A Fossil Mystery, Solved by a Spin Redefining Planets Across the Universe Globally Renowned Ancient Rock Art in the Negev Desert Faces Imminent Destruction Keep looking! The more you know, the more…