As I write this it is Sunday, June 30th. I got back to my house from Portugal around 4:35 and I arrived at this location at 5:47. The sky is bright blue, with sparsely populated clouds and I can’t look up without squinting my eyes. The sun makes it feel high 80s even into the 90s as it beats down on me. Flies and dragonflies still buzz around the water as they make the water ripple.
As I was on site after being over the bridge for a few minutes I walked down the path again and saw a dead tree that was dead before but now fallen over the path. Off topic but not really, when I was away from Middleboro in Portugal we have 2 tornado warnings in the 10 days I was gone, when I was there I have only been through 1 tornado warning. The high winds and rain that my girlfriend was telling me that was making my dog go crazy I suspect made those fall as other smaller branches were around the whole site. I investigated where it was snapped-about a 1/4 of the way up the tree as a jarring right angle showed the snap. Bark peeled at the site as small vines attached themselves to the very base of the tree. Small branches shot out as my eyes followed the hanging trunk, reminding me of small crackeling fire starters that I would use in my fire pit. The fallen trunk went across the whole path and where the top met the ground, the branches were situated in a way that looks like a dead branch bush.
As I back to my spot over the water, I was drawer to the size difference in the reeds again. As I looked longer I noticed that the side with reeds growing taller also has larger trees. Seeing that they still get roughly the same amount of sun exposure I was trying to think of why they can grow taller on one side. What I was coming up with was that since the side with the taller reeds is surrounded by other taller shrubs and trees, they just provide a protection for wind and other elements that allow for reeds to grow taller without being knocked down from the winds. The side with small reeds has no cover from wind hitting them, from any direction and as parts of the reeds in the marsh move closer to the tree line, the reeds also continue to grow in side as well, leading me to believe and support this theory.
I’m going to send you the photos because they won’t attach onto my blog for some reason! Sorry!
As I took photos I found myself trying to find something interesting to take, as I crouched down in different spots first seeing if it stuck out enough for me to take a photo of, or if it was something that I wanted to show off to you or anyone else that would see them. I took photos of the different sides of the water as I wanted to show the flow of it and how green the areas are surrounding the water. It felt so much more natural for me to take the photos than sketching as I found better angles to do take photos from as I got bigger and smaller in the areas trying to understand the subjects from different perspectives. My visit was very relaxing as it was my first time being back “home” and seeing the changes around the site was interesting to observe.