Guess what I cut up today? A cow eye!

This year I am in biology. Yeah, that's right. I get to dissect stuff. As some of you may remember, I dissected a worm a while ago, so I'm not all new to this business of dissection. My supervising teacher came to help me with the process. The pictures pretty much say it all, so I am going explain it step by step with them. Enjoy!! :)

The cow eye, before I did anything to it.

Cutting the muscle and fat away.

Muscle and fat all gone!

Cutting the cornea open.

Removing the cornea.

All taken apart.

I think you can guess what that is. :)

The back of the eye.

Tapetum, reflects light back through the retina.

The lens.

The Pupil

The front of the eye, from the inside.

The back half of the eye.

So there you go. I had a pretty awesome time. Strange, huh? Lots of people wouldn't say that, but I thought it was pretty amazing. And cow eyes are a lot like human eyes, so that kind of gives you an idea of what we see out of everyday. Awesome, right?

God bless,

'becca

I can fly, I can fly!! :)

Me, Ruth and Luke


I got to ride in the front seat. lol :)

View from the plane.

Thumbs up! Amazing! And we hadn't even left the ground!! :)

Hey there everyone,

A couple of weeks ago, a friend who is a pilot invited me to go on my first ever "real" plane ride. See, I have been on a passenger plane, but to Luke, that is not real flying. Real flying is riding in a 4 seat plane, dipping and turning, taking off and landing. Let me tell you, everything you see everyday looks a whole lot different from the sky!! Let me tell you, that ride was amazing!! :) We flew from home base to a town about a half an hour away and landed there. Then we took off and headed back to home base. On the way back, Luke decided to try following the river, a very curvy river. His sister Ruth, who was in the back and asleep, woke up with all the twisting. It was awesome!! Then we did a touch and go at home base and headed toward the lake and my house. We flew over my church, then over the reservoir. I said, "Hey, my house is that direction!" and Luke said, "Well, let's just go see it!" I called home and told them to look outside. We flew around my house three times. My family was waving and I got to see my house from the air! :) We did a touch and go at another airport then headed back to home base. It was totally a sweet, awesome day! Thank you for the ride Luke!! And thanks to Ruth for the pictures! I was having way too much fun to think about taking pictures. Next time! :) So there you go, a little something about what I have been doing.

God bless,

'becca