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
With nine nature lovers, we stopped often. And Happy National Pi Day! The alien beauty and creepy fascination of insect art The “Doctress” Was In: Rebecca Lee Crumpler Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
It started warm this morning, but by the time we did our morning walk, the temp fall to 51. We did get a little sunshine late this afternoon. Plant Ecologist: We Should Be Eating More Insects and Using Their Waste To Grow Crops County by county, solar panels face pushback Keep looking! The more you…
Yesterday, I really did not take that many different kinds of photos. Actually had a job to do. That job with the help of the wonderful volunteers (Alan, Jeanne and Scott), was to locate the host plant for the Frosted Elfin. At this point we had walked maybe ten to fifteen acres. So we were…
Or maybe not! Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Flower Student’s Invention Enables Researchers To Easily Track Elusive Insects The Story of George McJunkin, a Hidden Figure in North American Archaeology Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you…
Today it was still cold and windy. So it is back to the warm Monday’s outing. Tomorrow more treasures from sunny Monday’s outing! A moon-watching robot can demystify what migrating birds do at night Great job Wes! Spiders are much smarter than you think Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Inclination Are “Stop Signs” for Migrating Songbird…
A cool day and Gracie was feeling good. So a short morning outing to the grasslands was just the ticket on February 11th. 🙂 To sum up the outing, Gracie had a good time! Indeed, we did too! Also of note, the Tiny Bluet (Houstonia pusilla) and Whitlow Wort (Draba cuneifolia) are blooming now (Feb…
We made it back to the car, BUT I wanted to look for one more thing out on the barrens above the grotto. So off we went. Hidden Diversity: Undiscovered Species Are Hiding Right Under Our Noses Smithsonian Honors Female Scientists With 120 Bright Orange Statues Dinosaur Faces and Feet May Have Popped With Bright…
This post is not going to be about trash…just telling you. 🙂 And I think you should be ready to see awesome formations. Will an Imperiled Butterfly Survive Climate Change? It Depends on Shifting Rainfall Patterns Judge Restores Federal Protections for Gray Wolves in 44 States Turning Trash Into Treasure: Chemists’ Radical Way To Make…
Every step leads us to more treasures! Carol Clark writes another good one! Botany Nerd Learns Botany Word Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t? There’s A New Sound (The Sound Of Worms) – 1953 The Muppet Show – There’s a New Sound Keep looking! The more you know,…
Heading away from the grotto, nature was providing us with many more sights! New Mosquito Vision Discovery Could Help You Hide From These Disease-Carrying Bloodsuckers Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.