Falling

  This past week my observations were quite astonishing compared to many of my previews ones. Or at least I thought so. Several of the features in my previews blog posts are still present and remain in obscurity. The owner or owners of the small white feathers that appeared on the field about a week ago, for instance, are a complete mystery. I have tried doing some research on any white birds that may roam through Nevada but have had no success in the process.  Not one new feather has appeared since and I've sighted no such creature that could have possibly left this sort of mark on the field. I sincerely do hope that by the time I have completed this project the creature behind the small white "pillow" feathers comes forward and allows me to admire as well as witness it's activity on the field.

  Now this week (on Friday) a not so large group of dead orange-ish, brown leaves joined the white feathers on our mud puddle. You might think "Well the season's are changing and that is what happens during fall." but the problem with this is that there are absolutely no trees anywhere near the field. This puzzled me and made be very curious. Although that day I had no clue where these leaves could have possibly come from, that night a numerous amount of explanations came to mind. I've decided that the most reasonable one is that the wind has blown then in from it's nearest leaf supplier, which are the four to five (not sure what sort of trees they are) trees that are across the street in La Quinta's parking lot. I came to this conclusion after having noted that the wind this week was fairly present and was very strong. One thing I will try to do in order to confirm this is to check out the leaves (if any) around the trees in their parking lot as well as the ones on the field and compare the two. Hopefully this will be the the answer to yet another unanswered visitant on our mud puddle. 

  To my surprise the mud puddle itself (sadly what I have chosen to refer to the field as) had a very drastic and strange modification over night or day (since were not there on Wednesday due to an away game). Monday and Tuesday afternoons the field was very wet and slippery. Grass (root and all) ripped off the ground very easily. Could be speaking for all fall student athletes that an end of season vibe is sprouting while their field is dying. But on Thursday it seemed as is if the field had been sucked dry. So badly, that the mud was drying and smelt horribly. Friday and Saturday were no different, the field was still very dry. This, I really don't have any explanations to other than the cold and windy days that came with the week. I will not be able to find an answer to this until Tuesday but will definitely be looking forward to gaining some answer about these observations.