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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…
After being blown away by the soda straw stalactites, we decided it was time to head towards the car. This Ancient Roman ceramic pot was probably a portable toilet, study finds 6 strangest hearts in the animal kingdom A 7.5-feet-long mushroom canoe demonstrates the powerful versatility of mycelium Keep looking! The more you know, the…
As we work our way nearer to the grotto, we were drawn towards the ledges. So we have to go up, but only to the undersides of the ledges. These Super Rare Butterflies Thrive on Army Bases. The U.S. Military is Helping Them. These Teeny, Tiny Turtle Hatchlings Fit in the Palm of Your Hand…
We slowly were making our way to reach the grotto. There was no hurry and of course there were treasures! This fossilized fish skull is filled with feces Researchers Now Know Where the Ancient Maya Planted Their Sacred Cacao Groves Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see,…
First we had to go further away from the grotto in order to get down to the grotto itself. So we were a few hundred feet down stream from the grotto at this point. The slug and the Venus Fly Trap! Satellite images show biggest methane leaks com from Russia and US Keep looking! The…
February 1st was a great day to make a return trip to the Dixon Water Foundation. The high temp for that day was 69. Sounds perfect and it was! ‘ Watch thousands of ‘vinegar eels’ swarm through a water droplet in amazing new video Thanks Judy! New research could be the first step to hydrogen…
Enough of the snowy weather, but it was so pretty. The snow is mostly gone. Our temperatures ranged from a low of 13 to 47 today. So the Jan 24th outing took us five or so hours before we headed home. As you could tell from the previous posts and this post, many treasures were…
It was a very nice outing, make no bones about it LOL. Bones, mosses, lichens, native grasses were among the treasures we found. The Ill-Fated Expedition of a 19th-Century Scientist to Explore the California Wilderness Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Finally, you are probably saying, will they ever make it to the fourth goal. See below 😉 Going to the Caddo National Grasslands has been on my to-do list for sometime. And here is my great opportunity to explore it more closely than I have done before. I have only been there less than half…
Happy New Year! I am hopeful that everyone will have a healthy year ahead. Joni Mitchell wrote in her song Big Yellow Taxi “Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you’ve gotTill it’s goneThey paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot” Please plant native plants, pick up a piece of litter, and…