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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On the grasslands litter gets left behind. Humans of course do it, but really the interesting litter is what you find in nature’s ground litter such as grasses and leaves. Stop to pause this winter to see what you can find in nature’s litter. 🙂 The moon may enter a new geological period thanks to…
On the First Wednesday outing for December I had to postpone it because of jury duty. Turned out I was not picked. However I changed the First Wednesday to Monday just in case. And it turned out to be a most beautiful day at the grasslands for the eleven of us. The North Central Texas…
Camouflage is what most creatures rely on to stay safe. Yes, some like the Monarch do advertise their presence with bright warning colors. However many creatures take a different path. Funnel spiders and their webs are hard to see unless the sunlight hits a web just right. Or if the dew or rain droplets highlights…
Now we were about two thirds of the way on the Saturday five hour outing. We had clouds, a little rain, and then the sky cleared. The trail headed out towards a large meadow. A lovely day indeed! Microbes essential to plants are disappearing due to global warming Study finds plant nurseries are exacerbating the…
The damp days are really a great time to get outside. It really highlights the colors! Tomorrow I will finish up Saturday’s outing. Hey we see a lot of cool stuff. Butterflies in the Garden at FTW Botanic Garden March 1 – April 24, 2024 Ancient Bloodsuckers Revealed: Male Mosquitoes Fed on Blood Too This…
The ravines give a glimpse of what goes on beneath our feet. Maybe that is why I am so enthralled with them. More tomorrow, but not from a ravine. Some of you know that I have been working on the printed second edition of North Central Texas Wildflowers. FYI it will go live in eight…
Well, the start of weather this morning might have seemed like a dreary lifeless day ahead, but it definitely was not. Moreover that would be impossible when you head to the grasslands as Jeanne and I did today. 🙂 So as you might guess I have a few pictures to go through. So of course…
It always amazes me the things you can find in just a few hours! It had been a delightful couple of hours! New Study: The Ocean Is Emitting Millions of Pounds of Plastic Into the Atmosphere One Great Shot: Herculean Hurdles for Tiny Turtles Headless animals manage to learn without ever having a brain Check…
That was the temperature this morning at our house. And that can only mean one thing… So I wonder with the 24F this morning if tomorrow will bring a lot of leaf dropping? Time will tell, eh. 😉 Female Rangers ‘Don’t Go All Alpha Like the Men’ to Protect a Forest Momentous Discovery Shows Neanderthals…
A lot of plants this season have been up to three weeks later than usual. In fact some plants that normally bloom in the spring are re-blooming like Redroot or Jersey-tea (Ceanothus herbaceus). Well, on the Tuesday morning outing I found a plant that surprised me. I hope none of you ate too much today….