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When thinking of a location to do my journal posts, I had a lot of different ideas and beautiful places that I love to visit. But while walking my dog around the Loomis Chaffee School campus, I realized there is one spot on campus that I have always found very interesting. This is what we call the "meadows". Loomis Chaffee is in Windsor, CT and the campus is set within a loop of road. These fields are in the back of the loop and set down a hill. What you can see in the pictures consists of about 8 soccer fields, which are converted to lacrosse fields in the spring, as well as a JV baseball diamond, and part of our cross-country course. Off to the right side of picture two (which you can't actually see) there is a wooded area that holds a ropes course. There are also open fields, which the school has been trying to find a way to use for some type of farming. Unfortunately all attempts have been thwarted because of what is to the left of the first picture. Right in the back of the fields, the two rivers the CT and the Farmington come together. What this means is that we often experience a tremendous amount of flooding when waters from the north come down both rivers. In my career at Loomis Chaffee, both as a student and as a teacher, I have seen the flood waters come up to where I was standing (the road) high above the fields. This is why I find this area of campus so intriguing.

When I stopped to really observe the "meadows" it was Wednesday 6/18/14 at about 9:00 am. The weather was warm, 80oF and partly cloudy, and fairly humid. It was a windy morning but besides that fairly quiet. Since school is out and there are not many people left on campus for the summer, it was quiet in the fields. The only person out there was a man mowing the grass. The only animals I could see from where I stood were birds flying around the cow pond. There were a few ducks of varying species in the water and a couple geese standing under the trees next to the pond. This pond varies in its size and depth depending on the level of flooding that has occurred and how much rain we have gotten. I have no idea if there are any fish in it (it is not the cleanest body of water), but I would suspect there is something living in there because I can see the ducks diving into it. The surface of the water is calm and undisturbed for the most part. There is tall grass in bunches around the pond and there are small puddles that extend out past the pond in a line at the base of the hill. I don't think much lives in these puddles because they tend to disappear and reappear quite often depending on the weather.

The fields are rather empty of life and I suspect that this is because of human use of the land as well as the unexpected and random flooding throughout the year. It is hard for animals to form a hospitable habitat because they never know when their homes would be under water. Bordering the fields and acting as a barrier between the rivers and the meadows is a thick set of trees. I don't know what trees they are to be honest, I have never truly inspected them and I'm not very good at tree identifications but I would assume that they are typical species found in CT: oak, maple, elm, pine and many others. This will definitely be something I pay more attention to the next time I walk my dog down there (update in a future journal post!).

Although these fields were rather quiet and unexciting to talk about this morning, I walk by them at least twice a day and it is quite interesting to see how they change each time. Whether because it has rained, or flooded, or there are games going on, or because of a snowstorm, it seems that this land endures a lot. It is also kind of cool to see the challenges that nature can present to just a small area of land.