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
Obviously the following photos were not taken today. (It was cloudy and wet today). I had gone back to a unit where I thought I had left my knife a few days ago. However, I didn’t find my knife. Moreover yesterday I was searching my pack for another thing and I found my knife. LOL….
Brrr, it was a mite cold this morning! 27F was our low! Slingshot spiders rely on good vibrations to catch supper Thanks Jeanne! Insect fossil find ‘extremely rare’ Oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, is back with an egg! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more…
Yesterday you saw the results that Briar got from getting out on the grasslands. Well I am here to tell you it works for people too. 😉 And in case you didn’t know… yesterday was the first Wednesday of the month. So of course that meant taking a group to the grasslands! Had Briar spilled…
If you read the article, Writer Thoreau warned of brain rot in 1854. Now it’s the Oxford Word of 2024, you are familiar with the term brain rot. A therapy to help cure brain rot is no further than stepping out into nature’s theater. 🙂 Yep just like Thoreau it pays to get away! Just…
So do you have special traditions that you do on Thanksgiving/Indigenous Day holiday weekend? Stuff your face of course. LOL. Maybe you shop or like me get outside. Friday after friends left, we headed across the field to our persimmon tree. Wes has plans to make preserves. Yum! Will this be a new tradition for…
Every time I go outside, I am greeted by friends both old and new! Indeed you are never alone in nature! Solar superstorm in 664 BCE recorded in tree rings The Rise of The Dinosaurs Can Be Tracked in Their Fossilized Poop Easing the Biodiversity Crisis One Flowerpot at a Time Keep looking! The more…
So what did you do today on Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Go shopping (it is Black Friday) or take a walk? You know what I did. 🙂 Additionally at our house we gathered with friends and family. Now to continue on with the outing on Tuesday the 26th. The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the…
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?…
Yesterday (Tuesday 26th) was a bit on the chilly side. At our house the low was 30F. And I forgot to check the frostweed. 🤷🏻♀️ Meeting up with Jeanne, we headed to the grasslands. And we took our handwarmers with us. However by the time we got out there it was in the 40’s. We…
We were headed down hill where the owner had told us there was dry creek. What can I say… Are plants intelligent? It seems to depend on how you define it A heart-shaped mollusc shell’s striations resemble fiber optic cables Little Books with Big Subjects Gift ideas for the youngsters in your life. Keep looking!…