This is My Nature Blog
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thanksgiving.
For Thanksgiving I traveled to the Ozarks. I spent it in a cabin out in the middle of nowhere, deep in the country of Protem, Missouri. Right by Arkansas. The cabin had an entire wall covered with huge windows that displayed a view of my entity in enlarged form- Bull Shoals Lake, a similarly man-made lake surrounded by an expanse of trees and grass. It was a bit grander than the lake in the IU arboretum though.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Environmental Sustainability.
My entity is located at the center of the IU arboretum, a botanical garden featuring a wide expanse of grass and a variety of trees and plants. More trees could be planted to promote environmental sustainability because it would ensure that the arboretum would continue to flourish and not be diminished in the future.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Abiotic Environment
Abiotic features, such as sunlight, precipitation, and temperature create direct changes in my entity. When there is more sunlight, my entity's water is heated and rises in temperature. When it rains, precipitation feeds my entity and causes its water levels to rise. When the weather gets colder and temperatures drop, my entity can freeze from water to ice.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Urban Sprawl.
My entity was probably built as a result of growing urban sprawl. The lake and the arboretum that it is located in is a piece of land reserved to be relatively free of the built environment, unlike the area that directly surrounds it. It tries to preserve the land as a natural space and keeps urban sprawl from spreading into this particular environment.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Why?
I think my entity was developed in order to bring some natural scenery onto campus. It creates an ambient atmosphere amidst buildings filled with classrooms and lecture halls. It is the center and main focus of the arboretum.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The weather's been a bit gloomy. But we should listen to the advice of Clint Eastwood and not let it get us down: "I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/rain_2.htm
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