Great Blue Lobelia and a thistle with wild hair!

Today was club schedule day at AC-S.  My first block had nearly all students at club meetings ... something to put on that resume!  Well maybe ...

So our Logal lab in Genetics was moved to tomorrow ... modes of inheritance.

We had our third block class ... Selected Topics in Science.  We had a classroom discussion about Darwin, natural/artificial selection, evolution and the flu virus.  After this, we started our population lab in which students mate for 5 generations and we record how the gene frequency change over time when there is no selection ... tomorrow we will run the simulation again with selection and simulate a founder's effect.

We had several students out of computer programming fourth block but worked on our assigned problems with the students that were still in class.  Tomorrow, we will shift back into high gear.

Fall wildflowers are beautiful and nearing full bloom.  In the spring fed stream (which during the drought this summer did not go dry) in a narrow valley about a quarter of a mile behind our house, there are several great blue lobelia plants ... below.

There is a lot of jewelweed in this valley and a hummingbird couple that I see on nearly each walk I take.

Our second crop of buckwheat is starting to bloom.  I mixed in sunflowers which are just below the tops of the buckwheat and so far the deer have ignored them ... maybe they will bloom.

 
Lots of thistle blooming also ... when they start blooming it looks like a head with wild pink hair!