HOCKER_IN_DALLAS_7- Andrew English

Good Day Fam,

Hope you all are doing well and enjoying your time interning.

Hocker is a fun team and a good place to work. Everyone takes it at their own pace doing their best and helping eachother. People are full of patience and acceptance. It is good to be part of a succesful team. 

I am still working on planting strategies for a private school masterplan toolkit that has been in the works since the first presentation in 2018. It is a large project in contrast to the usual smaller and quicker residential gardens that we usually work on. 

Last semester's Jean laffite collaborative studio helped me a lot with understanding the idea of presenting a toolkit of a master plan for a larger community. Only this time I actually get to dig in to the ecology and implement it into the presentation. Looking back on it, I should have done that much better for my group but it was a confusing mess of agreements and just having a successful presentation. It went well nonetheless and I am proud of my group.

This masterplan toolkit presentation has been the main thing I have been focused on everyday as it holds so much information that is constantly getting condensed and clarified as the presentation date approaches. Other than that I have been doing some small probable costs and other document updates. I haven't been put into cad much since the first month I started, as I only use it to reference survey files and update CDs and what not.


 It has been a thrilling couple of weeks outside of work. Jack and I went to visit Brock in CO and we had a ball of a roadtrip/ national parks camping trip. We had a great time. I got back to Dallas and my family came to visit me for Easter so my sister and I had an epic weekend with brunches with mother and late night raves at the club. 

 I am glad to be back home and in the regular swing of the internship. Hype for the crawfish boil and see some fellow landscape nerds.


Time for the never before seen Brock blog appearance. 

Jack, Brock and my brother exploring the beloved downtown Boulder Creek Greenway.

The "canyon" Brock lives in has an awesome donut shop and an epic view of Mt. Sopris.


The "Landscape Arch" in Arches national park.


Ancient peublos hidden within the canyons perched up on massive rocks.


This fool here, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the "canyon of the ancients" with numerous mountain ranges in every direction. Camping on dirt road BLM land.


PLANTS;

Some kind of yucca in Mesa Verde National Park.

Some kind of sedge in the Mesa Verde National Park on a epic canyon hike. All kinds of small plants and little flowers blooming in these areas between Mesa Verde and Arches.


Cedar stand that got scorched where prairie is now regenerating.


Ephedra viridis; Green Ephedra was a very common plant in this area along with yuccas


I was not taking as many plants as I was ecoregions and views. Felt like a whole new world of botany so I was sort of plant blind to these new "West of the Rockies" species. 


That is enough yapping.



    Here is a picture of Ivy appreciating the sunset in a field of bluebonnets to close this blog out. (Check out those epic rare white bluebonnets.)


I miss my RRSLA family and I am excited to get back into the final year for the final send off. <3



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