For my final Wonderblog entry, I wanted to focus on my site as well as the journey to my site through consecutive photography, put together in a video format. This photo series of Lake Surprise at Watchung Reservation introduced me to much more wildlife at my site than I had seen previously. I spent a …
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Monday July 5th at 2:30. 88° F, partly cloudy, and somewhat humid. Though it hadn’t rained since my last visit to the site, the ground was just as – if not more – muddy. The bright yellow blossoms of the Earth loosestrife I had seen last time are now wilting and faded in saturation. The buds …
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Thursday July 1st at 2:30 PM. 75° F and very humid after a brief rain After arriving to the site, the first thing noticed was that the ground was clearly much more wet and muddy than the previous times I had visited. Many plants’ roots were submerged underwater and the ground sunk under my steps. Directly …
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