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
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…
This past week Jeanne and I headed up north to Norman, OK to attend the TORCH conference. TORCH stands for Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) $1.5 million to digitize its 355,000 herbarium specimen collections from Texas and Oklahoma in 2019. The…
It was noon before we finished at the first destination. Two more stops. And they were quick and short hikes. We managed to hit all our destination goals. So now it was time to head to the DQ before heading home! Yum! The Story Behind the Seashells By the Seashore Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe?…
Now we were getting close to the first destination! And now it was time to head back to the car. We still had two more quick stops to check. Flipping a famous fossil around reveals our earliest vertebrate ancestor, scientists say Wolves Vanished Across America, And We’re Still Uncovering The Damage Keep looking! The more…
