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
Today’s post will conclude Thursday, July 1st outing. We found four different ferns, bugs, fungi, and plants on that day. Always wonderful to get out on the grasslands. The holiday is over and it is back to work. Oh wait, every day is a work day and/or a day off for those of us retired….
So the visit to the grasslands on Thursday was great as usual. The only thing that would have made it better would have been a breeze, but since we go really early it is not too bad. It started out on the roadside to hunt for a plant. I didn’t find it, but maybe it…
A few years ago while out surveying on the grasslands, I came across this cool beetle. I thought it was a moth, but Suzanne who was with me, knew that it was a beetle. It does not look like the typical beetle. There are always new things to learn! Articles: The Alchemists Had It Right?…
Yesterday was such a cool morning! I just had to go for a hike at the grasslands. It was perfect weather. Articles: Smelling in Stereo: The Real Reason Snakes Have Flicking, Forked Tongues Smaller Bodies, Longer Wings, Earlier Migrations: Untangling the Multiple Impacts of Climate Warming on Birds Two cats and Gracie! What fun! Keep…
Do you stop to smell the roses? That is for your olfactory sense. My olfactory sense is not very good as some of you know. So I explore the small parts of things with my vision sense instead (use what you got LOL). Stuff that needs you to get right close to it. Here are…
The sky was all blue except for a wisp of a cloud on the horizon and I thought rainbow. What is this crazy woman thinking. Well it is Pride Month, so I thought I would celebrate that by finding the six colors in nature! Diversity is what makes our planet so wonderful! A Proclamation on…
Have you seen those beautiful photos of the mountains and lakes out west? On Tuesday, we had a beautiful pond right here in our own neck of the woods! Beauty is everywhere and there is no shortage here. Article: New Fossil Research Reveals Woodlice Cousins Roamed Ireland 360 Million Years Ago Interesting side note, members…
This morning I looked at a couple of the specimens I collected yesterday morning. You may find an ick factor but it is really fascinating actually. It was pretty darn cool! I found more on my dung sample, but that will have to wait for another post. Keep looking!
You never know what you are going to run across out and about. And sometimes you must use your imagination to see “it” and other times “it” is obvious. Keep looking!