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
Saturday had been a sunny and a windy day. Very lovely! Another great fall day! Hope everyone got some more rain. We got 0.74″ and we were so happy! 41,000-year-old evidence of first fire use in Tasmania unveils ancient human practices Ghostly Creature Deep in The Ocean Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before Keep looking!…
As much as I like to explore new places, home always has much to offer. Home is always full of nature’s treasures! Scientists Suggest Freezing Endangered Animals’ Cells and Preserving Them on the Moon Super-marine heatwaves describe record high sea temps This Epic Monument From 6,000 Years Ago Is a Feat of Stone Age Engineering…
Summer is definitely here, eh! High was 103F here. Stay cool! A Record-Breaking 17 California Condor Chicks Hatched at the L.A. Zoo This Year Airplane glory: What is it and how to spot one? A New Type of Wood Just Discovered Could Revolutionize Carbon Storage Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
Sure hope we get some rain soon. Friday’s rain does not count here at our house. So far this year it has been either full on or off, eh. However at least we are having cooler weather. To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy These Ants Perform Life-Saving Operations on Injured Nestmates, Similar to…
Over four days last week at the Caddo NG we found three box turtles! So I waited almost ten minutes for her to move away! But it was worth the wait to see her gorgeous markings! Well according to this link, eye color is not enough to determine gender alone…Mr. or Ms. Box Turtle? Five…
Indeed this post is not about current events on the news. Furthermore it is about nature in action. And Kathy and Gary witnessed a cool behavior! She shared it with me. So now I am sharing with y’all. So you may have noticed in the still shots that the female was arching her back. Now…
Erosion was and still is a battle on the grasslands. However, erosion areas are a great place to look for rocks and petrified wood. The wood is not actually wood any longer of course. It is known as a replacement fossil unlike an impression fossil. TxDOT has a neat poster of Texas Rocks & Fossils….
Not being able to resist, I headed back to the grasslands this morning! It was not as hot as yesterday even though I had started an hour later. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
I was up at 5:30am with Gracie this morning. I had hoped to see a shooting star or two. But no luck 🙁 Hope more than a few of y’all got some of the rain yesterday. Rain amounts around here ranged from barely wet (.1″) to 1.25″. Here we got the .24″ and was very…