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
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…
Sometimes it just doesn’t work in your favor. However that is what makes it so fun, never knowing if you will get the target or not. It was fairly small. And it was slightly smaller than the usual Daddy Shortlegs. It belongs in the suborder of Armoured Harvestmen (Laniatores) and the family of Pied Harvestman (Cosmetidae). There…
It had been a full day on the drive-about. So it was time to head in the direction of home. Still we had time for a few more quick stops. No doubt the fish future looks good now that we have some much needed rain in this ephemeral creek! The Cooke County drive-about had been…
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…
Now back to the Cooke County drive-about. After the wonderful stop at Moss Lake we headed further north towards the Red River. Our first stop along the dusty road was for a kettle of Mississippi Kites! Migration time! An ethical way forward for Indigenous microbiome research Starfish’s mechanism of shedding arms during attack could help…
Oh my it was so great to get some rain! Our bucket now says over an inch fell in the last few days. No complaints here. 🙂 Hope your bucket got a bunch too! Tomorrow’s post back to the Cooke County drive-about. Scientists pick and taste ancient dates for first time since the Second Temple…
I know you have been holding your breath for more from the puddle. 🙂 As I waited for Jeanne’s return with the container I observed more. Watch quick. The water strider skates through! This little worm wiggled by and several other UAs (unidentified animals). It might be an aquatic earthworm (Oligochaeta). However some worms are…
Pack rats, bowerbirds, and I have something in common. We all like shiny objects and parts. You never know what that shiny object might be. Jamestown: DNA Solves Mystery of First English Settlement in America Hidden Undersea Avalanches Are A Big Problem For The Internet Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
Now a look at the critters we found on our short visit to False Foxglove (Aureolaria grandiflora)! Others were there for example the ants. However these were the only ones I took pics. Don’t Just Walk In The Woods—Touch, Smell, and Taste Them, Too Thanks Claire! Spider Species Uses Male Fireflies as Ghastly Puppets to…
We reached 109F here at our house today. Time for a cold front I think. Now on with the first Shirley spot. Well, it was shady. So that was a good thing. Time to head for the second Shirley spot! ‘Bad Omen’: Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapses Into Pile of Rubble Why Scientists Fall for…