Nature spectator!

Since I love nature, I have decided to be a spectator of all biotic and abiotic things around me. First, I have decided to visit the The Kathleen Gonzales Memorial Water-Wise Garden located at the Casa Blanca library, that is close to my house. Since I enjoy going there, because it is a quiet place where I can walk my dog. The garden provides water-saving ideas that people can incorporate into landscape design and gardening practices in their own homes. It is an educational exhibit displaying plants that can be purchased locally and examples of water saving techniques. However, being there, I started my adventure of being a nature spectator for at least 30 minutes or an hour, this happened last Thursday, March 20, at the afternoon. 

Principal entrance at the Kathleen Gonzales Memorial Garden.

First, I have listened to the birds, many birds song. I wasn't lucky at all while trying to take pictures of them; nor while trying to get one of the hummingbirds. The garden is full of flowers, so quietly, I noticed a bee inside a white rose, she was working, I have named her Lola.

"Lola" the bee while working hard at the garden.

Around me, there were many other plants and flower, that suddenly moved with the wind. I have compared the scenario as an orchestra. Everybody was there playing an important role in nature. I have seen many ants, of course, they were working as a team group: a good lesson for humans.  

Small ants were surrounding this plant while working. 

Then, my pet who also loves to go the garden, has sat in front of me as asking me: Why are you sitting here? It was a good time to take a picture of him. We were facing each other for almost 10 minutes, then, he has decided to keep exploring the same places again. 

Bony looking at me while I was being a nature spectator. 

There are many kind of roses.

Many kind of flowers at the garden.

Bony trying to drink water?

The garden also has a fountain with lots of abiotic rocks around it. Bony was getting desperate of walking, but he had waited very patiently. I have seen a couple of birds drinking water from the fountain. One of them was a kind of afraid of reaching the water. The other one seemed a kind of self confident while drinking it. For a moment I have thought in a mom-child relationship, maybe the little one was being trained by mom? 

After completing my 45 minutes there as spectator, I have decided to walk Bony, he deserved it after waiting for me. By the time I was walking him, I was paying attention to the sunset, the weather, the wind, the trees, the flowers, the fountain, the bees, the ants, the birds, and many other biotic and abiotic things that live there. Nature doesn't stop, because nature is life. I have learned many things while being a nature spectator. My best advise is invite you to be one when you have free time. You will enjoy the experience. 

 

What do you know about global warming?

"Humanity is burning the planet"

Are you contributing to burn our planet?

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels. According to Dr. Holli Riebeek, from the NASA Global Warming publication, states: "Throughout its long history, Earth has warmed and cooled time and again. Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the Sun’s energy varied. But in the past century, another force has started to influence Earth’s climate: humanity". 

Climate change is a crude reality. Nowadays,  scientists agree that our planet is hotter that it was two thousand years ago. For example, Greenpeace organization claims that: "earth is experiencing faster sea level rise and more extreme weather than scientists had previously predicted. By the end of the century, if current trends continue, the global temperature will likely climb higher than at any time in the past two million years". Contrary, in Africa, the planet is experiencing an increased incidence of extreme weather changes as droughts, floods, mudslides, some among. Also, since Africa is the poorest continent in earth, some infections diseases as malaria or HIV Aids will rise.