Today was our final day to be outside for phenology. Although this is a somewhat sad day, it also is a day to look back and reflect on all that we have learned through our phenological studies over the coarse of the year.
For those of us who have been here for the whole year we have seen Pioneer Park in almost every season. from the fall to the spring. This excites me because when I think back on what we have observed i see that really although the park is constantly physically changing, its core and main attributes are never wavering. During almost all the seasons of the year children and people were found in the park enjoying all that it had to offer, and the creek and the hills were always in sight no matter what the season was.
Something that I also was thinking about is the creek itself. never before had I realized how much it fluctuates in depth and the speed of its flow. It is truly amazing how the aspects of the weather play considerable parts in the establishment of the parks ecosystem.
The growth of the plants of the parks through the seasons is also something that has taken my fancy. Never before had I so closely observed the development of the leaves to their dormancy state in the fall, nor to the establishment of their regrowth state during the spring. Even today as I was walking to my phenology site I could see plooms of pollen filling the air, and the Dandylions had gone to their seeding state.
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