sofiana's Journal

I found these flowers next to a creek in Mill Valley. There is a trail behind the Mill Valley Public Library that I love to explore, and there are several different species on the banks of the creek. These flowers caught my eye with their beautiful color and their lovely spot next to the creek. The flowers were relatively small, and were growing next to a small tree. They would get a lot of sunlight for most of the day, but also at certain times they would get some shade from the many redwoods nearby.

I was not able to make any observations this past week, but I am hoping to get out this coming week. I forgot that we are allowed to take pictures of species in parks, so I didn't take pictures of the species I saw while in Golden Gate Park. I might go back this week, so we will see. My sister and I were also thinking about walking to San Bruno Mountain and making observations there. There are so many cool species there. If we are in the San Mateo area at all we might go to Wunderlich County Park, as we have been wanting to visit it for a long time. We will probably focus more on plants, because the time we are free to go outside is when the animals are least active. We are going to try and go out on Thursday or Friday.

My sister and I went to walked on two San Bruno mountain trails yesterday evening and this morning. We tried to go there early today, but we didn't end up getting to the trail till 7:40 AM. We mostly got pictures of plants because we couldn't get any good shots of animals that we did see. Whenever I would try and get close to them they would just run or fly away. I am hoping to find away to upload my pictures to iNaturalist in an easier and quicker way, as it takes so long to upload from my photos and I don't get good reception on the trails. I am hoping to get out earlier next time so we can have a better shot at getting pictures of animals.