My Sit-spot

My sit-spot is located directly behind the Cock building on main quad and to the left of the chapel. If you go down the stairs on the right side of the Cock building– the side by the chapel- and follow the gravel path around to the stream and a large grass patch. If you go all the way to the bridge on the left side of the building and go the right of that a few feet, you will find a large bush of flowers by the stream, by spot is directly across from the flowers on the boulders on the other side, right by a small bush. 

The boulder

Sadly, there was not much noticeable change from my 3 objects. The boulder-as expected- is the same and in the same position. The flowers are more or less the same, perhaps a bit more wilted than before.  I noticed the biggest change in the bush. It is a lot redder in the leaves now and is starting to get a bit crunchy and dead on the ends as it prepares for winter. The grandest change overall of my spot was the incredible amount of algae growth in the stream now. The once flowing stream is now almost completely covered in algae and I was amazed at how much in had grown is such a short time.  

The algae overgrowth

Walking around my sit-spot, I took the opportunity to explore and look around a bit. It was exciting to look and see some more things around me-and to even touch and smell a few things. The first thing I did was further inspect my bush, that’s when I noticed the ends getting crunchy preparing for the cold weather. I walked a few more feet to my right and examined the purple flowers on the other side of the stream. I then walked in the other direction and walked halfway between the bridge and my spot. At that spot there was a large overgrowth of grass growing into the pond with a purple flower right in the middle of the grass.  

The flowers

It was nice walking around my sit-spot and taking notice of thing that I probably would not have seen or noticed otherwise, like the overgrowth of grass and the crunchy leaves on the bush. Really walking around and exploring a little bit was something that I probably would not have done, but I am glad I did. Going and ‘exploring’ a bit was fun and I was able to notice other details and aspects of the spot that would have otherwise been overlooked.  

Finding 3 adaptations was a bit hard, I’m not going to lie. But, once I started thinking about it, a few came to mind, and I found it was not actually too hard. The first and most noticeable was the bush preparing for winter. To survive the winter, plants-including the bush- will lose all its leaves and hibernate. To start the process the bushes leaves will turn red, and then brown and fall off. We can see the start to this process by the leaves starting to turn red and the ends getting crunchy- signs it is getting dry and brittle and starting to die. The second adaptation I found was the algae growth. The little bit of algae that was there the first time, has reproduced and has started to spread. The final adaptation found was in a squirrel. While I was at my sit-spot, I noticed a squirrel under a tree a way off. The squirrel was scavenging for food, an adaptation that is a product of years of natural selection-the first squirrel learned to hurt to survive and those that lived passed it off to other squirrels and so on. 

The bush