Kensie's Blog

 

 

 Time: 3:20- 3:52 Weather:  Climate conditions: Sunny with an 8mph ESE wind Temp:  72° feels like 73° Length of day: 12hrs 3mins Photos: Observations:  Today was a beautiful day! It was the perfect temperature outside and so nice. I noticed that our backyard was getting more brown. I wonder if that is because we haven't had rain in a couple of days or if things are starting to die because it is cold at night. I heard a lot of bugs. I saw one beetle on a flower and I saw a dragonfly flying around. I also noticed that the golden rods from my last visit were not yellow anymore, which makes me sad because I know that winter is coming. I also noticed some cute little white flowers and they are not dead yet! There were probably about 10 little clusters scattered around. I also noticed some mushrooms in the grass and there were about 30 of them! I photographed the biggest one. I also noticed some berry bushes and I didn't know what they were called, so I looked them up and ...

 

Time: 2:11pm - 3:07pm Weather:  Climate conditions: Sunny with a 4mph east wind Temp: 77° feels like 82° Length of day: 12h 52m Photos:  Observations:  I heard the leaves rustle in the wind.  I heard some birds chirping. I saw a monarch butterfly.  I saw some leaves staring to fall.   I saw many small white butterflies flying by the goldenrods.  I saw many birds flying around. I saw a lot of honey bees and bumble bees taking the nectar from the goldenrods.  I also noticed that a big tree is dying.  In the top two pictures I took pictures of some honey bees close up. I am surprised I could get that close without getting stung! On the pictures below those, there is a tree that appears to be dying. It has looked pretty bad all summer but now it almost has no leaves! Also I learned that this yellow plant is called goldenrod and we have a ton of it in our backyard woods. Lastly, the last picture is just a 0.5 of what the woods look like...