Spring Observations

Due to an extremely busy week,unfortunately highlighted by two midterms, I was unable to venture into a truly natural area, like the Berkeley hills. Therefore, I decided to attempt to track the inertia of nature in the concrete streets of Berkeley. By this, I mean I looked for spots in which plants seemed to exist without human intervention and care within the cityscape, specifically ones that had sprung up through or around curbs. I took photos of quite a few different plants, but I wasn't completely sure which were wild/naturalized, so I attached all of them.The changing of the seasons was definitely at play for the plants I observed because they appeared to have bloomed in response to the arrival of spring. I noticed this because I had walked through many of these areas in the past year and they were previously bare.

In addition to the plants, I also observed a Cross Orbweaver spider and what appeared to be a fly of the Superfamily Muscoidea. While I'm unsure of whether the spring season affected the spider's appearance, the fly was busy pollinating a newly blooming Naples Garlic plant when I snapped a photo of it.

Posted on March 15, 2013 04:57 AM by zanefour