Ocmulgee National Monument

This week we went to the Ocmulgee National Monument. We got to see the various Indian mounds as well as a little detour into the woods where I met my best friend aka box turtle and she was awesome.

I forgot what I initially named my child of a box turtle but the one above looks like a Shania!

Anyways, it was really awesome to see the city of Macon from such a high vantage point. Macon doesn't seem very nice when you're in the middle of the city. But from above it looks beautiful. I'll definitely be going back to show some friends.

Here's a link to the Ocmulgee National Monument Website:

CLICK ME!

There you can find all of the information you need about the park and how to enjoy it!

Community Gardens

This week we went to the community garden right off of campus.

Here's a link to the website:
http://www.maconroots.org/

Community Gardens help add a sense of community for people all working towards a common goal. There is shared responsibility because if you take you must give back in working on the community garden. Community gardens help people become more consistent and they actually can see (or taste) the efforts of their labor pay off!

Trees & Shrubs!

Red Maple /Acer rubrum 

River Birch/Betula nigra

American Holly/Ilex opaca

Sweetgum/Liquidambar styraciflua

SHRUBS and PLANTS

Elephant ear, Xanthosoma colocasia

Mums, Chrysanthemum morifolii

Zinnia, Zinnia elegans

Lab #2

In this lab we went to the Ocmulgee River (did I spell that right) We measured the different elevations along the river, although I was entirely too busy exploring/floating on logs. it was a lot of fun but I ended up very wet. I almost ruined my social security card that was in my wallet.....that would've been a disaster. My baby is doing quite well. i don't want to post pictures of it until the end when it is a perfect little sunflower child though.
Someone flipping a boat into the Ocmulgee River....sort of like our log!

My Happy Place

My happy place was in the woods near The 3 Ponds. When I was little my friends and I used to go back there and build forts and explore. Sometimes I still go out to the tree house we built out there to read.

HONEY BADGER!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a honey badger. It is native to Africa, the Middle East and India. The honey badger is mainly carnivorous and has very few natural predators due to its ferocious defensive capabilities. Hopefully, someone was stupid enough to take one of these honey badgers from their natural habitat and drop one off in the good old state of Georgia so we can see one up close and personal. Even though the odds of this happening are very unlikely, one can still dream, can't they?

Lab Report #1

This is a chloropleth map of the state of GA. This map shows the average annual precipitation throughout GA. As you can see, GA is a pretty dry place :(

This is an Isorithmic Map of the state of GA. Instead of using colors this map uses contour lines in order to better illustrate the differences among rainfall throughout the state of GA.

 I'm not sure if this was the map we were supposed to find but this is a Population Density map for the state of GA. This map uses color to describe where the majority of people live. The darker the blue the higher the concentration of people.