For this Phenology Blog I wanted to\nfocus on flowers. I wanted to get a picture of every flower I saw blooming. I succeeded\nin getting around 10 flowers, each prettier than the last. These flowers were\nfun to take pictures of. They each had such different colors, and unique\nshapes. Another interesting thing is that I watched them for about an hour and\nsaw something interesting in their interactions with the bees. Bees prefer some\nflowers over others. Overall they just went for any flower they could get their\nhand on, but they did appear to play favorites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One other thing that I tried to do\nfor the April blog was to get images of the grass growing. I started at the beginning\nof the month and took one another picture in the middle of the month, then one\nfinal one at the very end. I was mildly successful. While each picture does in\nfact show a change in height, it is not much of a noticeable change. This was\nodd to me because at another house a few miles from mine where I mow the lawn\nevery three weeks, they had growth of almost 4 inches. I only got about two\ncentimeters. There are two things that I think could be behind this. A) Somehow\nthis place has much more fertile soil than us and is able to triple our grass\ngrowth. B) There are hidden variables at play. The lawn I mow is someone\u2019s\nbackyard. They don\u2019t use it very often, and for the entire month, were on vacation.\nThis is an untouched grass field with optimal space and time to grow. The grass\nI took photos of was different. Firstly, it had different growth patterns, but\nI won\u2019t get into that right now. The main difference was that the grass I took\nwas on the sidewalk. Every day it was subjected to people and animals trampling\non it. Whether it\u2019s a dog pooping on it, me bouncing a basketball on it, or my\nneighbor dragging her garbage bins over it, this grass got a much worse lot in\nlife. I think that this overuse is what was the main contributor to the fact\nthat this grass grew so little over the one month period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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