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
So the evening field trip in New Braunfels will take a bit for me to process and will be posted at a later date. So back at home. 🙂 The Fall Aster is a happening place now! How the Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Turned Ants Into Farmers Astounding New 3D Images Reveal Ancient Asteroid Crater…
Literally it was quiet Sunday. The nearby race track surprisingly wasn’t roaring. Even though it is six or seven miles as the crow flies, sometimes it sounds like it just on top the hill. Hope your Sunday was as nice as mine! This Animal Can Scuba Dive: Meet the Lizard That Uses Air Bubbles To…
Pack rats, bowerbirds, and I have something in common. We all like shiny objects and parts. You never know what that shiny object might be. Jamestown: DNA Solves Mystery of First English Settlement in America Hidden Undersea Avalanches Are A Big Problem For The Internet Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see…
You remember when it was cool last Friday? Me too! So this is last post from the cool Friday (July 5th). Ok it was time to look at some more nest boxes around the hill. Who would I find taking up residence? What a cool time it had been! What Is a Species, Anyway? Butterflies…
Thank goodness for the wind yesterday and today! It made it tolerable for an afternoon hike to the grasslands yesterday. Just need to keep looking forward. These Hardworking Mussels Monitor Poland’s Drinking Water “Very Unusual” – Scientists Discover Bizarre Parasitic Creature Preserved in Amber Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
Our high was 95F! Yikes! Much too hot for me for a February. And the plums were very fragrant today. So I took the time to visit the patch to see what might be hungry. So dining at the plum patch seemed to be plum good today! National Invasive Species Awareness Week Feb. 26 –…
Ok if you didn’t get out today, why not. LOL So I was out but did not take many photos because I was on a scouting mission with fellow NPAT instructors (FtW chapter) for the upcoming Prairie Seekers class on Saturday. If you didn’t sign up for this one, consider signing for the next one….
I didn’t take my umbrella on the afternoon walk even though I heard it rumbling. I thought it might help bring some rain. 🤞🏼 Why were the Ringed Paper Wasps (Polistes annularis), Green June Beetle (Cotinis nitida), and the flies swarming the spot? Thanks Jeanne for sharing your wasps and lily! 35 times more species…
We were down in the creek area for almost two plus hours. Male cockatoos have the beat Science reveals flowering plants survived K-Pg extinction Ancient Tracks Reveal Oldest Evidence of Footwear Ever Found Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
What are you doing in what seems to be this endless heat? Mostly staying inside except for early morning tending your gardens or chores via the car? How about a good book? I have a recommendation for you, Endless Forms, The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner. It is packed filled with information about…