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
They are back again, Green-lip Ladies-tresses (Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis)!!! Love the changing seasons! Each has its own special treasures! South African Rock Art Depicts 260-Million-Year-Old Extinct Animal, Study Suggests See 15 Amazing Photos of Beautiful Birds Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you…
Every day has the potential to learn something new. And that makes me happy! Keep learning! Equinox sun rises due east and sets due west Scientists Play Matchmaker for Beloved Sea Snails in the Florida Keys Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466…
Back to the bottomland outing! It was a good morning for the slime molds so far! Darwin’s Fear Was Unjustified: New Study Confirms Evolution Despite Fossil Gaps We May Have Found Where Modern Humans And Neanderthals Became One See the Wonders of Bird Engineering in These Photos of Intricate Nests Keep looking! The more you…
Now it was time to circle back towards the car. So it pays to get down close to find some really cool insects! Don’t Miss September’s Sky Show: The Harvest Moon Eclipse Famed Pacific island’s population ‘crash’ debunked by ancient DNA Ig Nobel prize: Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their anuses receive award…
Continuing on with for my search for fungi in the woodland bottom! More tomorrow from the woodland bottom! Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Turns Out to Be Worth Over $1 Million Underwater spy: How herring fish farts caused confusion during Cold War These Fish Transformed Their Dorsal Fins Into Taste Buds Keep looking! The…
More from the woodland bottom that is, from the LBJ NG. Still searching for fungus. Love the fungi! Meet The World’s Oldest Fish—Presumed Extinct For 60 Million Years, Then Rediscovered In A Small Fishing Town Yukon gold miners are unearthing mummified ancient creatures and truckloads of fossils from the Ice Age. Take a look. Which…
Sometimes it just doesn’t work in your favor. However that is what makes it so fun, never knowing if you will get the target or not. It was fairly small. And it was slightly smaller than the usual Daddy Shortlegs. It belongs in the suborder of Armoured Harvestmen (Laniatores) and the family of Pied Harvestman (Cosmetidae). There…
Continuing on with Sunday’s outing. Breaking Cognitive Boundaries: Groundbreaking Study Finds Monkeys Use “Names” To Communicate Taxonomy research in Australia reveals 750 unique species in 2023 ‘Ice bucket challenge’ reveals that bacteria can anticipate the seasons Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
After the rains here in North Texas, the Rain Lilies are really having a moment! The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads Thanks Suzanne! 60% of Earth’s Food Crops Aren’t Being Visited by Enough Pollinators For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood Keep looking! The more you know, the…
It had been a full day on the drive-about. So it was time to head in the direction of home. Still we had time for a few more quick stops. No doubt the fish future looks good now that we have some much needed rain in this ephemeral creek! The Cooke County drive-about had been…