Tyler Starr
16 October 2008 from 1635-1650
Location: The Stairs on the North side of the art building
Weather: 64 ̊ F, partly cloudy, no wind
General: I went by the squirrel carcass to see if there was any change. It was more decomposed than when I saw it last weekend, it seemed like all of the meat was gone. The only part that remained unchanged was the tail, which was still furry. I could see what I thought was its skull and jaw as well. I then went and sat on the stairs of the art building under a tree. The tree had very dark green, waxy, ovate-shaped leaves. At the end of each branch was a small ball that looked like a bud that would bloom into a flower, although I am not sure why it would be flowering right now before the winter. There was a spider in the tree, approximately ¾ of an inch long. I believe that it was a Banded Garden Spider. It is the third one of these that I have seen on campus. Also, right next to the spider’s web was another green worm like the one I saw the other day, hanging from a thin strand of silk. I wonder what would happen if a gust of wind blew the worm into the spider’s web. On the walk back to my dorm, I saw a bunch of mushrooms in a pile of dirt that didn’t have grass or anything growing. It reminded me of when I first learned about fungi, and how there is just one fungus under the ground, and all of the mushrooms above ground are part of the same organism.
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