thought: trip to forest preserve

Today, we went to a local forest preserve in attempt to test the water quality of the streams, and photograph various types of creatures in biology class. Overall, beside some mishaps that occurred here and there with crazy hippies exuberant and hyper to return to the wild (well actually only one), the trip was a success. I was able to snag pretty decent shots of tiny macro organisms that I never knew that was there within the soil I stood on.

The pluses of today:

• Got more pictures of different species, including:
• various arthropods
• Earth worm
• some sort of fly
• slug/snail creature
• crawfish
  
• new strange fungi
• orange poisonous-looking one
• big flappy fungus
• many other weird looking varieties growing on the trees
• portraits (well, not really different species...)
• with very pretty natural lighting!
• it didn't rain
• I wore my hiking boots that protected me much more than any pair of gym shoes could from the mud.
  
• the forest preserve seemed much nicer than others
• opener area
• enables one to get a feel for nature
• relaxing
• vibrant in color
  
• stressed to be observant
  
• ate lunch in a comfortable place by the stream
• had a korean wing
  
• adventurous
• saw a deer and raccoon from a distance
  
• found a quarter on the floor
• kicked up a crawfish in the stream that was preggers and was laying black little eggs on my hand (but it crawled off and plopped back into the water)

The laughing tears of today:

• field trip = more work to do later on
• MUD, gets everything dirty and sucks feet up
• when you pick up feet, makes slurrgyy sound
  
• attempted to cross stream with one arm while on a log (with boots slippery by the way)
• clipboard with papers and friend's binder falls into water
• clipboard face down, binder...floating
  
• got into water with useless weighters
• water caved in
• socks got slogggy
• left cell phone in pocket while in water
• still works, which is good
• threw it at friend on land
  
• getting out = difficult
• mud slide present
• pulled me out, but weighters came off
• weighters still attached to my belt, dragging me down
• get through with iggy socks
• pour out gallons of water in weighters
• sprained or something part of my foot weirdly
  
• hopped around with iggy socks
  
• felt like I still was wearing weighter even on land (drenched jeans blehgsss)

Yeah yep. Memories. Sorry for my blabbering. Just wanted to write it down somewhere.
Though the day has its interesting humps/ bumps I had fun times haha,
even when a little messy.

-lilxerica