06/28 Chestnut Hill Reservoir Walk
Today I went on a walk around Chestnut Hill Reservoir, and it is my first time actually taking a walk there. I went there around 7pm, and the weather was good because it was evening so it wasn't too hot. I saw many plants during my walk. I was expected to see many animals on the pond like geese and swans, but there was only a few on the lake. My first observation is this little white flower named Horseradish. As you can see in my picture, there was one stem growing really tall, compared to others. I was wondering why this happened. Maybe this one absorbed more nutrients from the soil. But the leaves below the flower were falling and turning yellow, so I assumed the flowers took more nutrients than the leave did. My second observation of plants is the one named Tobaccos. This one was also really interesting because at first I thought these were withered flowers, but as I got closer, I found there were actually leaves, but with some red color on the top of the leaves. The whole shape of the leaves were interesting as well. My third observation of plants is Northern Whitecedar. This was a really common plants you could find next to a pond/reservoir. They were really tall and huge, and as I got closer I could see some flowers that haven't blossom. The leaves made me think of the mimosa plant, but in a bigger version. It felt nice walking along the reservoir to see the contrasts of color - blue and green, which was really soothing. I've seen many plants in different shapes and sizes. In addition, I didn't take many pictures about insects but I did notice that more insects were out because of the warm weather.
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