Poop or Beauty?

Poop or Beauty?

Colors are really starting to pop. Of course it would definitely help if we got some rain. We did get a whopping 0.05″ last night. Every bit helps right! Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists Congress Is Searching for Trillions of Dollars in Cuts. Will the Oil…

The Queen Has Arrived!

The Queen Has Arrived!

Hard to keep up with the new life that is waking up now. Indeed wildlife needs our help now! Getting Struck by Lightning Actually Helps This Tree Thrive Cuttlefish Mesmerize Prey With Hypnotic Moving Stripes Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater Could Require More Energy Than Most US States Spring 2025 Plant Sales in Texas Stand Up…

Tallest on the Prairie

Tallest on the Prairie

The wind was really whipping as it has for many days. Well, it certainly feels that way. Glad my pack was heavy so I didn’t blow away. LOL. See the year’s fastest sunsets and sunrises around equinoxes Why Do Shorebirds Stand on One Leg? Operation Atacama: The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler’s…

Ok Just a Few More

Ok Just a Few More

So I am going to back up with a few more photos from the Friday NPSOT pop up field trip. This was after the two rare plants that I had wanted to share in yesterday’s post. Now we were no longer on a slope but in open prairie. Garden for Birds – Great Backyard Bird…

Big Smiles

Big Smiles

Friday was a pop-up NPSOT Trinity Forks field trip. With little notice, only one person was able to come. The prediction had been for wind and dust. It got windy as the morning progressed. However, the dust was only barely started as we finished up. Great field trip! Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a…

Lake Murray Nature Center

Lake Murray Nature Center

On Friday we started to explore the park, Lake Murray State Park. Furthermore we decided to explore the Tucker Tower first. I learned in online search that you could climb to the top. And it was a pretty day so the view would be spectacular. At least that was our hope. However before we started…

Elephant Rock

Elephant Rock

Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma was our ticket to another adventure. 🙂 Our trip started on sunny Thursday. In any case, we are looking forward to exploring the park for a few days. International Women’s Day: Female Science Stars to Follow in 2025 Red Fish, Blue Fish Ancient humans used bone tools one million…

A Grasshopper Was My Highlight

A Grasshopper Was My Highlight

So it made it up to 45F today. However when I took my walk it was only 38F. Hope you enjoyed your Sunday too! World Whale Day Desert Secrets: Scientist Discovers 16 New Grasshopper Species in U.S. and Mexico The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to…

Dashed Away

Dashed Away

The temperature dropped here about 3pm. And by that time I had already done my walks for the day. A productive day at the grasslands! Bird fossil hints Antarctica was a refuge from killer asteroid What Did Scientists Learn After Thousands of Penguins Were Slaughtered by Mountain Lions? Keep looking! The more you know, the…

Not Today

Not Today

Today’s photos are not from today. I took the day off. 😉 And it was warmer on this particular outing on the February 8th. Perhaps we will see more butterflies out as soon as this cold weather subsides. How a moth uses an optical illusion to disguise itself as a leaf For Centuries, Indigenous People…