The Elders became Professors, Doctors of science today and embarked on our project to survey the land for a year. To observe the changes this year of plantation, when 6,000 trees were planted this January on a land which was once a field of wheat.
Below we are preparing to go on to the land to start our weekly scientific investigation. So how do frogs spawn? Is it just one frog? How long does it take to hatch? What are the predators and eaters of frogs-spawn? Prof Beanland and Storey gathered many questions.
Meanwhile, Dr Andrew and Esther Paige, observed that there were 3 clumps of frogspawn in a 1 year old pond, clay base, settled in the shallow base. Threats? herons? Ducks, other wildlife? Evidence of Muntjac deer hoof prints.
I love this moment before the trees blossom, the tight buds, beginning of sap green. Take it slowly, I say, I don’t want it to rush
Dancer of concentric circles that crossed/changed mind
Cloud burst of sprogthorn
Inert inhabbited jellatinous colony
An intimate group of admiring scientists
Animal hoof marks in the clay mud – muntjac?
5000 tree protectors
Relieved to find Oliver was a dog and not a child locked up in a car
Pack of dogged dogs
A circle of friend
Lines in a landscape, now symetrically planted but will become as random as this 100 year old wood in which we sit.
Primular
Sap rising, and I’m awaiting my own sap to rise!
A time of anticipation, and preparation
Thank you Emily and Kally for your photographas
Kinda Elders in the woods 