"No place is a place until it has found its poet"

What a day!  This seems like it is going to be just about the last time we really go out to our places so not only will I share with you my poem, but I would also like to show off some things I have been working on for the past semester.  But let's start with the poem.  It has no title but goes like this:

On my way to Salmon Hole
I passed two chickadees
With nothing but love
in their flight —
with my arm outstreched,
I could almost touch
Them.


The water laps on smaller banks than
what I am used to.
The trees, too, aren't used to it.


Birds
Bugs
Buds.
They're all here
At a party celebrating life —
Where are you?

Now how about some cool videos and stuff?!  Woo hoo!

This first little one is of a Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), which seems to be an important character at the Hole because I drew one in my Event Map last week.

As for some other cool things, I have a couple time lapse videos I have been itching to post for more than two months now — I hope you like them!

This is simply a compilation of all the panoramas 

you have seen at the bottom of the blog each week

I originally meant this to show the sumac as it began to leaf out 

in the spring, but instead it's just a cool time lapse of the seasons

This last one is the one I am most excited about; it shows the path to my place

 as a time lapse over the seasons.  I took about 10 shots today though 

since it may be the last week and I really wanted to show as much 

of the path as I could — hope it's not too dizzying!

Well, if this is the end, it's been real.
If not, I'll see you next week!


...I just watched all those videos after I published this post and I appologize for the quality problems most of them are having; if you want to see them, let me know and I can show you on my computer in class on Wednesday!