Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Amphioxus

This organism was the start of all vertebrates. It was living 250 years ago and only was 5 centimeters long. It had little body structures that resembled a spine. Yet had no limbs or anything as such to make it able to do much. This is pretty wild to me to be the start of vertebrates.

Dog Park

I think the dog park is great for the community. I myself went with some friends to help clean it up. If you want your dog to have a safe playful area to just run around and do whatever it wants and somewhat be free without you worrying about it pooping in the house. This would be the place to go. I enjoyed helping to clean it up but we learned while we were there that the water could possible have some contamination in it. This makes it hard to want to let your dog be here. But the dog parks in general is a great place to rest and to enjoy all the dogs that come here. It's a good destresser.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Jackson Springs park

This was a great trip i thoroughly enjoyed hitting rocks with the miniature pickaxe. I found quartz and hurt myself hitting at the feldspar. I never knew how much fun making rocks explode was. I might no have gotten out of this lab what was supposed to be, but i gained a new respect for people who do this for a living and the people who work at a quarry. I would do this again because it was loads of fun. The park was inherited by the community and became an issue because of desegregation. This was also an interesting fact that was learned