Sad, Sad Sunflower

   Towards the beginning of school, I planted a sunflower seed. My assignment was to nurture the plant and help it grow. The sunflower progress pretty well, reaching about a foot in height, until one sad day. Recently, I gave my sunflower too much water. I believe this caused the roots to rot and has in turn started to kill my plant. :(
   Don't worry! I planted a Coleus around the same time and it is growing very nicely. I have decided to adopt it as my class project! :)

Don't get too excited. This is not a picture of my actual plant. My  plant is still small (about  6 inches tall) :).

Jackson Springs Park

   Jackson Springs Park is located at 998 Nottingham drive, Macon Georgia, 31211, in the Shirley Hills neighborhood. The park was originally created as a picturesque landscape for the surrounding well-to-do homeowners. The park is also believed to have been one of Andrew Jackson's camping sites (hints the Park's name). 
   While visiting the park for lab, we learned that the park was eventually inherited to the the community of Macon (community here meaning the white mothers and children). This eventually became an issue at the time of desegregation. The City of Macon somehow managed to reissue the land to everyone, making the park public. We also looked at the different types of rocks found in the park. We examined the rocks by breaking off bits of the rocks with a hammer. The sieve was used to collect samples from the creek bed. By looking at the samples we collected in the creek bed, we were able to see different particle sizes that were present in the water.