Tyler Starr
7 November 2008 from 1545-1600
Location: A walk through the Martha Springer Botanical Gardens
Weather: 63 ̊ F, still with an occasional 5 mph gust of wind, mostly cloudy skies
General: Everything feels very awake in the pleasant weather. In total, I saw 3 different squirrels scurrying around the Botanical Gardens. Many of the small birds that were out the last time I observed the gardens were out again. In particular, I noticed the bird that I always see but never can identify, with a white and gray body with a dark or black head and neck, along with several chickadees. I found an interesting fruit lying on the ground. It was about an inch long, sort of in the shape of a pear. It was light green, with beach ball-like segments. The outer layer peeled back like moist paper, and on the inside, there was a small, soft green ball. Inside of that there were many seeds that looked like those of bell peppers. The ground is very soft and muddy from all of the rain, especially towards the back of the gardens. I noticed that a group of some sort of plant had been reduced to a cluster of stems. It appeared that grounds keeping cut off the tops of all of the plants with a weed-whacker. Perhaps they are planning to plant something else there next spring.
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