Today was a very busy day for phenology but I will not be discussing that today.
I spent this afternoon doing some light coding and durning dinner tonight Amy, Jared, and I held Alex hostage durning a conversation about best coding practices. This conversation transitioned into Jared and Amy helping me write my first function!
Below is the function that I have written, for readers at home feel free to copy and paste and play around
printName <- function(name, punctuation){ print(paste(“My name is”, name, punctuation)) }
this is a function that the 3 of us wrote together (Jared started but Amy finished it, I supervised/tried to help but didn’t know what was going on)
favoritePet = function(answer) { if(answer == “dog”) { message(“That is an acceptable choice, but have you considered salamanders?”)} if(answer == “cat”) message(“What are you thinking?!?!?!?”) if(answer == “salamander”) message(“You are a good person.”) else{ message(“Please try again…”)} }
The first picture was taken at aa after lunch at 1:38 pm in the NE map section. It is of a small spider and there were also webs around the rays of the echinacea.
The second picture is from Nessman and is of a small, green and clear flying bug. It was taken at 2:33 pm.
The third picture was taken at Steven’s Approach this morning at 10:18 am. It is of a small, white fly on the head of the echinacea.
By the dawn’s early light, I was once again out on the hunt for bees. As soon as I arrived at East of Town Hall I secured my first catch, which, after a morning of searching, turned out to be my last. I returned to Andes with the single bee in tow, wiped her of her pollen, and released her on the way to laundry day at the Elk Lake House.
A windy morning on the prairie
After laundry the Andes crew returned home for a pizza dinner and Pirates of the Caribbean. To partake in the 4th festivities, the four of us climbed up the ski slope and got a full view of the firework display. From our vantage point, we had an unobstructed 360 degree view of the fireworks in the surrounding towns, not to mention font row seats to the sunset– it was definitely worth the hike. Stay tuned tomorrow for a continuation of the celebration!
