more trees!!!!!

So this week i took pictures of the trees around my house that i haven't already showed you. These trees are right outside of my house and they are beautiful this time of the year. The bottom one is called a dogwood tree and the one on top is called a Japanese red maple.

rainy day post

Today i decided to post the different trees in my back yard. i had no idea that there was so many different types of trees out there. The tree in the top right is called Norway maple, the one in the bottom right is called a purple beech, the last large one on the left is called a shag bark hemlock. All of the trees are pretty cool. The purple beech has beautiful purple leafs when its in full bloom. The shag bark hemlock is very cool too you can see that the bark is almost peeling off. and i think it has icy growing up the bark. i need to do more research on the plant growing up the shag bark.

My pm post

Last week I went out side around 10pm and took a picture about every 5 minutes. the first 20 minutes were not any fun because I didn't see anything but around, 25 minutes in I was lucky enough to see a new England cottontail. Native to the New England area they are in the decline and can no longer be found in Vermont and are starting to disappear in Rhode Island. This is the web sight if you want to Learn more about these cool rabbits. www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/17/us-newengland-idUSTRE78G2EO20110917

beautiful day in james' backyard

Today was a beautiful day to sit outside of my house and view what was around me. While walking around my house i noticed some more things that i wanted to share with you guys, first I found some moss on a brick that had been out all winter. The second thing i found was in the garden next to the porch, The plant is called chrysanthemum or mums for short. its a plant that comes out in the spring and makes beautiful flowers also native to asia and northeastern Europe.

week 4

This week wasn't as fun as sitting in the tree but i still viewed a lot. This week i walked around the yard and noticed a lot of things. While walk around i noticed that there were tracks in the snow from a white tail rabbit, also while walking around i noticed that there was some plant life starting to grow I'm not quite sure what the plant is yet but i will figure it out by next week. i think its a monocotyledon though.

week 3 tree sit

This week I wanted to do a tree to sit for 30 minuets and I found a lot of cool things that we have learned about in the weeks before. As you can see there is a lot less snow on the ground and you can see the grass coming through. While in the tree I notice a lot of things like on the bark of the tree there was moss growing. Knowing that this was moss I knew it was a nonvascular plant.  While on the tree I also noticed that there was a branch that had no bark on it. Knowing that the bark was the only way to bring water to the rest of the tree I was not surprised that the branch was dead from that part on because it had no vascular cambium. Being in the tree was a lot of fun and I found a lot of cool things. Just don’t do it in wingtips like I did. 

My back yard week 2

This is a nice Panoramic shot of my back yard as you can see we took down the swing because we didn't want it to get ruined from all the snow we were getting. Not much has changes, my dog is always back there so you can see all the dog prints. To the left of my shed I noticed that there are a group of squirrels that are always fighting or playing. I couldn't get a picture of them. I will try next week.