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
Weather was sooooo nice for exploring the grasslands today! Found lots of cool stuff. Left the house by 7:30am A dandy group of small mushrooms. They were a bit wet to the feel and the stem was almost translucent. Shelf mushroom (Polypore) This small shelf type mushroom reminds me of shell Turkeytail polypore Short and…
Always something to new to see and always fun see old friends (plants, etc). We started on top the mesa and headed down the hill. Ditches and gullies just love’em. It is like a black hole…it just sucks me in :-0 Purple cliff brake ferns (Pellaea atropurpurea) Liverwort and moss Closer view of the liverwort…
Good afternoon! We have gotten 2.73″ rain this morning. Gracie and I went to check it out. Our front pond completely filled but not quite over flowing yet. Dragonflies and frogs love it. The eryngo –Eryngium leavenworthii is really getting to its peak. Giant ragweed is sure pretty even tho….you know And has a pupa…
This is Sida – Sida abutifilia. Tiny flower, only about 1/2” across. It likes my limestone gravel driveway and it opens in the afternoon.
Lichens were really pretty this damp morning. Love it!
Pill bug or roly poly bug on moss