Welcome to my nature blog! I love sharing my photos of North Texas! I will keep looking out and hope you do too.
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Claire and Briar camped overnight with us so we now had the whole day ahead for fun! A fine start to the day! 8-year-old boy’s discovery rewrites 100 years of insect and plant knowledge Thanks Suzanne! Squirrels Are Displaying ‘Widespread Carnivorous Behavior’ for the First Time in a California Park, New Study Finds Thanks Judy!…
A day to give thanks to our beautiful earth for providing us with so much! Perhaps it also should be a day to reflect on giving back. And thank you to our families and friends. Hope you had plenty to eat. Maybe you will need some nature time to walk off that turkey and pie?…
So many of the areas on both the LBJ and Caddo National Grasslands have had a lot of disturbance. Some plants will thrive in those areas. Today’s post is back at the Caddo NG. Haunting Sounds From The World’s Largest Living Thing Recorded There’s an Awkward Link Between Plastic Production And Pollution We’re Not Considering…
The collection for mosses and liverworts was a great success. Not many bryophytes have been recorded in Cooke County. Jeanne will have a lot of identifications ahead of her and lots to add to the known records! Wylie later told us that he thought the Texas Buckeye was common. Well, it certainly was not to…
Yesterday I visited two different units at the LBJNG. The first place I went to was a unit where I just wanted a clearer and closer look at the Texas Balloonwort (Sphaerocarpos texanus) male specimen. And it wasn’t enough for me just to see in the field so I collected a specimen (with permission of…
After being up in the open I moved down into a small gully. The RX burn had opened it up with the brush burnt back. Leap Day! So it is like a free day for the year. I hope that you used it wisely. Indeed I did! Tomorrow I will share my Leap Day’s adventure….
Fossil Hill in Montague County is very magical place to visit. Jeanne and Wayne are the land stewards of this beautiful private property. So if you get an opportunity to go on a field trip there, jump at the chance. In fact, your next chance to get in on a field trip will be April…
A few more of our found things from Thursday. Some good and some not. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
Pareidolia is the tendency for the perception to impose visually an object, a pattern or meaning when there is none. But maybe there is something there. 😉 Just saying. LOL. All types of plastics now recyclable thanks to two companies Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why Seven of the…