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On Monday (March 6th), it was another beautiful day at the grasslands. I never tire of visiting our local treasure! Inspiring young scientist! This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection Why Newborn Chicks Love Objects That Defy Gravity Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see,…
A friend of Suzanne told her the Trout Lilies at Tandy Hills Natural Area were blooming now. To be or not to be as Shakespeare wrote, so were they poking up here yet? Sunday the 19th and off I went searching for the Trout Lilies on the grasslands. Moreover, the water leads to the small…
Some of you will know about First Wed. Others not. So First Wed is short for First Wednesday. This is what I called the monthly hikes I led on the LBJ National Grasslands on the first Wednesday of each month. Of course, that was before COVID-19. To dip my toes back in, I found a…
We slowly were making our way to reach the grotto. There was no hurry and of course there were treasures! This fossilized fish skull is filled with feces Researchers Now Know Where the Ancient Maya Planted Their Sacred Cacao Groves Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see,…
First we had to go further away from the grotto in order to get down to the grotto itself. So we were a few hundred feet down stream from the grotto at this point. The slug and the Venus Fly Trap! Satellite images show biggest methane leaks com from Russia and US Keep looking! The…