This week we have had almost record highs in the mid to upper 70's all week until yesterday. It has been beautiful weather! Yesterday, while I was at work, it started to turn cold, not just chilly, but REALLY cold, so cold that when I looked out the window of our drive through I started to see little white flakes falling from the sky....yes, it was snowing! Nothing was sticking yet as the ground was still really too wet, but it flurried for a couple of hours on and off most of the afternoon, but it was just really, really cold. The point of this blog however is not the cold weather affecting me personally, but my poor 12 planted green beans that are supposed to be growing for my Biology lab project. I had a hard enough time trying to find the seeds in November in Wisconsin, and finally resorted to purchasing them on ebay paying about 5 times what I needed to, but I needed them for a grade so I had to get them.
The project is to plant 12 seeds in separate styrophoam cups. Three cups have a blue transparent plastic cover, three have red, three have green and three have clear. The lab is designed to demonstrate photosynthesis. Those of you that have ever taken a biology class before know that in order for a plant to photosynthesize, you must have the root of the word "photo" which means light, thats right, plants need sunshine to grow. It is November, in Wisconsin, and we don't have much sunshine, but I will let you know how my little seedlings sprout, or even if they sprout while my project is in session.
I am going to finish my homework for this week now, and enjoy a nice hot cup of tea and think about Phoenix....hopefully that will warm me up!
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