The Diversity of Species in My Environment
I live downtown in Sacramento. I think I have a typical amount of species for an urban environment. We have cats, dogs, and chickens in my neighborhood. The chickens seem to come and go fairly rapidly because if the city doesn't get them the other animals do. Once we found a snake crossing the road, but it was injured and we couldn't save it. We have rats, mice, and squirrels. Last year I planted a lot of lavender from the farmer's market and the bees and butterflies like it, so now we have them. We feed the birds and have a million tiny finches that come to eat. I built them pretend wires to sit on by the feeder and have recently added a fountain, so they spend quite a bit of time here. There are six doves as well.
The nicest thing about Sacramento is that we have a lot of trees. I think we're called the city of trees. This is a good thing because it is hotter than you know where here in the summer. The trees are as tall as 30 feet and are very helpful at shading our houses and the streets. I have been landscaping and because of our class have been using old seeds. I planted old roses last weekend...they are supposed to be extremely fragrant and are extremely disease resisitant. I also got organic seeds from Elephant Pharmacy and planted them. I suppose when I really think about it most people in Sacramento are not very imaginative. Lots of camelias, impatiens in the summer. I am trying add some diversity
In the grand scheme of things, we don't have a lot of diversity, but at least we have some life and I am grateful for that!
Microscopy Link
This was interesting. I was kind of hoping for real pictures instead of renderings, but there was a lot of interesting information. I especially liked the virtual tour of the cell, but I could not get the components to cut so I could see inside.Spike's Gallery
I really like this link! The pictures are beautiful! This is what I was hoping for in the microscopy link. When my kids were little we used to look at pictures like this and you were meant to guess what was in the picture. 
3 comments:
thanks for sharing about the diversity in your neighborhood! i bet the chickens spice things up a bit. our neighbors in chile had a rooster and it crowed all night and all day. it was pretty annoying, but after a while i got used to it. so are the chickens somebody's pets or are they just kind of bumming around on the street?
Your description of Sacramento paints such a lovely image.
Yes. and what of these free-range chickens?
I lived with a family in LA who had two chickens. They kept them in an enclosed space that protected them.
I love those chickens. It would be great to have some around here.
I grew up in the Sac area, in Yuba City. It is quite beautiful and ecologically diverse. I remember going to the river too where another mini-ecosystem thrives. There is quite a bit of agriculture, fruit, rice, sunflowers, etc. as well. Sometimes I miss it quite a bit.
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