I ate some of my fresh homemade bread for breakfast, and it was delicious! I may have a future here... I am planning on trying my hand at bagels, english muffins, naan, pita, etc in the next weeks.
I did not go out on any surveys today. Instead, I stayed in and did a lot of reading on phenology in general, and, more specifically, projects at the Andrews. It rained all day, and I am really sleepy, even though I don't really have anything to be tired about.
I did some data input from the last pulse for Mark today. The next pulse is a week from today, and it seems that it will be a big day for everyone here because the entire forest is canvassed in one day...
I also talked a bit with Mark about my project. He said something like we don't expect you to have your idea nailed out by next week. If this was the block plan, I would have already written a proposal draft...But I'll take it. It is summer after all. My project, like I may have previously discussed, will most likely be an investigation on the differences in results collected across a variety of temporal scales. I will also probably look into how the community of insects at a plant changes over the season. yaddah yaddah, more on this later...
I also chatted a bit with Kathy, one of the lovely ladies who works in the main office. She showed me the secret key to the locked bookcase, and showed me how to check out books--I ended up checking out 4 books... One, called The Hidden Forest (Jon R. Luoma), is specifically about the Andrews. It's very interesting as far as I can tell--I'm doing a very block-plan like skim so far...
Ari (apartment-mate) and Jay (her partner in crime, lives next door) left today until Monday. Cristiana (other apartment-mate) and I move across the road on Sunday... I'll probably go to Eugene on Saturday to grocery shop and make some phone calls.
And some photos I took while the rain subsided...
kids climbing trees! it's a program called "canopy connections"
Hopefully, I'll get to do this sometime!
Just like the Wild Trees by Richard Preston!
Iris flower (taken 2 days ago, when it was sunny)
Trillium, Oregon's state flower (also taken on a sunny day)...they apparently get a little pinkish later in development. this is one of the study plants in the vegetation phenology study
tiny water droplets perfectly placed on this plant (clover-thing maybe?)
I believe this is a huckleberry, but there is a 50% chance it is something else
nice vine maple leaves (I'm sure about this one) with drippy droopy moss
there are shaggy moss carpets all over the trees...this makes everything nice and soft!
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished" Lao Tzu
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