it was an beautifully sunny and warm sunday afternoon! what better way to spend our time than by taking a lil walk around binghamton university's very own nature preserve? :))
being one with nature is a good thing y'know? :D

the "we" here means me and sherry!! :))
the very first thing she showed me was this purple flower down below! its honeysuckle! you basically pluck the petals off and suck on the ends where the nectar is. it was really surprisingly sweet :)
okay, so we were actually there coz sherry had to carry out this bio experiment which involved..
watching bumblebees land on flowers! she had to count how many times the bees landed on a patch of flowers - one in the sunlight, one in a sunny/shady area and another in a shaded area. she chose goldenrod, which is this flower below and that bee on it had to be the HUGEST BEE ON EARTH!!! seriously. i was too scared to actually get a close up of it but trust me, it was HUGE!! and scary.
so while she watched bees, i went around snapping pictures of nature in its finest glory! well, almost. its about fall now so the leaves are turning red :D i was sooo happy that the skies were clear and blue and it was sunny and warm today!
see this one tree is fully red already!

after watching bees, we decided to walk along the..

where we took lots of pictures! :P kinda jakun la but hey malaysian rainforests are like.. wet, muddy, leech-infested and green/brown. here its all pretty! i couldnt resist taking pictures!
this is a mushroom if you cant tell..
queen anne's lace! very delicate and pretty!
there were so many different-colored berry bushes. they LOOKED really good but theyre probably poisonous or something!
white berries..
i really like the red splash in the middle of green effect :)
blue/black berries..
these are red berries with purple aster growing next to the berry bush!
we thought this might have been poison ivy :S coz its red leaved with reddish stems lol. but luckily it didnt turn out to be anything poisonous :P
and here's the marsh! or wait maybe this is just some random river -.-
we then moved on to the...
where we saw lots of trees on the way. like this one kept losing its leaves everytime the wind blew. signs of winter :(
its so fascinating to see that the leaves have touches of green, yellow AND red!!

voila! our "pond"!! hahahaha! nah just kidding this is just a tiny puddle :P we didnt find the pond so we're gonna go back another time! yayy!

it was really fun just wandering around acting all tourist-y with the cameras and shades :P HAHA! :)