bio field trip
Jul. 13th, 2005 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianCalled: "Puget Sound Old Growth Rain Forest"
Actually: An afternoon walk with very light hiking around Seward Park, which is in Seattle on the border of Lake Washington. Seward Park is about the only place in Seattle that you can see bedrock as opposed to semicompacted glacial till.
Happened: Last Friday. I only just found my notes.
Notes taken:
Puget Rivers History Project
Lahars to SoDo from eruptions of Mount Rainier, which is a good three hours off by car. The lahars (hot mudslides) have traveled along the Duwamish Valley in the past and would presumably do so again, so our house would be safe in the event. Not so with giant earthquakes, of course, which we also have sometimes, to the tune of 29 feet of vertical movement in one past incident (Kingdome quake? no hits).
Banks of hydrangeas @ Seward Park were all beautiful, different varieties or madly inconsistent soil pH making masses of blue-pink-purple that all managed to match while still being riotous. Lovely. We actually drove to the park from the UW campus through the Arboretum, which basically kept us in parkland designed by the Olmstead brothers for the whole trip.
Salmonberry/hummingbird: The relationship here is "is pollinated by", and the particular hummingbird is the rufous one, which Wim's mom had scores of at her feeders earlier this year. (Really. She was making quarts of sugar-water for them every day.) I'll have to tell her to plant some salmonberries outside the deer fence.
Scotchbroom: arrested succession, which I thought was a good way to say that the damned stuff is around forever and doesn't allow other plants to come in.
(a sketch of a crow with a solar panel on its back and a light on its breast), or I thought later a robin-thrush might be more appealing to most people. Might be fun to build little lanterns in animal shapes like that.
Actually: An afternoon walk with very light hiking around Seward Park, which is in Seattle on the border of Lake Washington. Seward Park is about the only place in Seattle that you can see bedrock as opposed to semicompacted glacial till.
Happened: Last Friday. I only just found my notes.
Notes taken:
Puget Rivers History Project
Lahars to SoDo from eruptions of Mount Rainier, which is a good three hours off by car. The lahars (hot mudslides) have traveled along the Duwamish Valley in the past and would presumably do so again, so our house would be safe in the event. Not so with giant earthquakes, of course, which we also have sometimes, to the tune of 29 feet of vertical movement in one past incident (Kingdome quake? no hits).
Banks of hydrangeas @ Seward Park were all beautiful, different varieties or madly inconsistent soil pH making masses of blue-pink-purple that all managed to match while still being riotous. Lovely. We actually drove to the park from the UW campus through the Arboretum, which basically kept us in parkland designed by the Olmstead brothers for the whole trip.
Salmonberry/hummingbird: The relationship here is "is pollinated by", and the particular hummingbird is the rufous one, which Wim's mom had scores of at her feeders earlier this year. (Really. She was making quarts of sugar-water for them every day.) I'll have to tell her to plant some salmonberries outside the deer fence.
Scotchbroom: arrested succession, which I thought was a good way to say that the damned stuff is around forever and doesn't allow other plants to come in.
(a sketch of a crow with a solar panel on its back and a light on its breast), or I thought later a robin-thrush might be more appealing to most people. Might be fun to build little lanterns in animal shapes like that.
