first post from week of oct.11-15

I decided to use the water from number five, the Meads Quarry on Island Home Avenue, Knoxville County Tennessee. Partial shade exposure Rock Quarry N35 57.162 W83 51.960 880 10/10/2010
-I used 1/3 water from the top, middle, and bottom layer of water.
        -The bottom layer containing all the dirt/soil was a tan-brown color and very cloudy looking through the microscope.
        -There was little to no movement here.
-Next I added a part of plant A and plant B.
        -I could easily see the cells and cell wall of plant B.
        -I used the 40x lense mostly.
-I noticed that most of the movement of organisms took place around the plant parts.
        -There was one big, creepy looking bubble type organism that was the biggest one I saw but it came and touched the plant and then left super fast. It moved in a quick zig-zag kind of way.
        -There were a few tiny moving organisms that were round and looked like a donut in the sense that i could only make out the nucleus. They too scurried in a spiral manner.
        -One particular organism that really caught my eye was a longer, thin, very slow moving "stick".
               -It looked to have three stationary dark dots: one at the top, middle, and bottom. All which appeared inside the organism.
              -What was interesting was that as it moved by these stationary, squigly, bundle-of-noodles-lookin things, they attached to it at an end and stuck to the stick as it moved on. Not for long though, because they always seemed to "fall off" after awhile.