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
Doesn’t the title sound like it describes most nature nerds? I sure think so. LOL. Protozoa! This group includes a lot of tiny creatures. The sizes range from one micron to giant ones (20 cm) that can be found in the ocean. Protozoa, even bigger! At first I thought this was going be a tardigrade,…
Well, my prediction was right that I made yesterday 🙂 The Spring Beauty did bloom! A Tiny Bluet (Houstonia pusilla) was open for business too! Kinda surprise to see the frost this morning. Not sure why since the low was 23.3 degrees. Frost/ice on the concrete. 8:30am. 2:30pm and 57 degrees. This little patch of…
So happy it is warming up today and all sunshine! To change it up it up a bit, here is the iron oxidizing bacteria sample I collected… This is from the Feb 8th outing at the grasslands. It took me several days of looking under the microscope to go thru the whole sample. And the…