#4 Sense of Place - Your Neighborhood

This is my house I live in with my boyfriend. We live in San Carlos Park and let's just say it's a gigantic neighborhood. We have many neighbors and not a lot of wooded areas around us. There are not many sustainable features around our neighborhood, or at least not that we can see. I took a walk around my neighborhood to see for any wildlife, special environmental features, etc. What I came to find out is there is not a whole lot of wildlife. With all the traffic in and out of the neighborhood it would be hard for many animals to survive. My friend and I almost got ran over by a car while taking a walk; a small animal or even large animal probably couldn't stand a chance. The only special environmental features I found were that all our neighbors seem to have very green yards with many plants. 

This is the main road by our house. I would consider our neighborhood a concrete jungle.

We did find a little bit of wildlife. In my backyard I saw a bee, a butterfly, and many lizards. Across the street at my neighbors house there was a Great White Egret. So, there is some wildlife, but like I mentioned before, it would be very hard for any wildlife to survive with so many cars and so much traffic. 

The one thing that was truly disturbing is all the trash on the side of the road. In a 10 foot radius this is what trash I found...



Pictures taken by Kayla Bjerke.