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         On May 16th of 2012 the Environmental Science class went for their last phenology data collection day. I had some mixed feelings about this, because I really enjoyed doing phenology, but I knew that school is almost over, so I don't have to worry about that. The temperature was twenty six degrees Celsius for the air, and sixteen for the creek. The sunrise that day was 5:42 A.M. and the sunset was 8:40 P.M. The water depth was eighteen centimeters, which was quite a bit more than the previous data entry of twelve centimeters on May 7th. The water in the creek was kind of cloudy and fairly rapid in its flow. The creek also was wider because some twigs and leaves blocked the creek.
       There were lots and lots of dandelions, which didn't look at all like dandy lions. They were all over the ground everywhere. The grass was also very green in color and thick, but that's because they water the grass in Pioneer Park. The broad leaf plantains and clovers were very plentiful too.  I heard three separate birds.
       Over the entire time we did phenology the change was astonishing. At first it was warm, the leaves in the trees were very full, and the grass was fairly green. Then, during the fall the leaves changed and fell down, and then winter happened. Also, the amount of sounds for the sound tapestries went down for me during the winter, but then went back up in the spring, which I thought was pretty cool.  It's also really interesting because of how much of a change there is in sunrise and sunset. I knew that it changed, but it really seems to be such a larger change when you actually look at lengths of days in the winter compared to the spring. I really enjoyed phenology and hope that other people got out of it what I did.