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List of Deciduous Trees with buds found
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Sugar maple Red maple There weren’t many I found due to a lot of the trees being tall and the buds being out of reach. You will find the pictures of the buds on my Burlington pictures and videos page.Posted 2 weeks ago. -
Blue tint
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The snowy pictures showed a range of shades of blue as the sun bathed its light and shadow on the powder.Posted 2 weeks ago. -
Blog entry 2/1/19
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There was a lot of snow cover today. It was difficult to distinguish the land from water. I noticed fresh tracks scattered on the snow. It was still challenging to identify the tracks. I used the ruler on the back […]Posted 2 weeks ago. -
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Winter Tracking
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I have a new page that will focus on winter tracking. It will have a gallery of pictures of tracks and scat that I have found. I’m in the process of identifying the tracks and later the scat. It will have labels […]Posted 4 weeks ago. -
Tracking the Catamount
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Hey there Catamount. Don’t act like you haven’t been here. I see your tracks!Posted 4 weeks ago. -
I'm back! Blog entry
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It has been a nice long winter break and now I’m back for the second semester! My spot has changed drastically over the course of the bitter cold December and January! Snow has blanketed the ground. As I walked […]Posted 4 weeks ago. -
Testing on Centennial Brook
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A possible project could be doing tests on Centennial Brook. Doing tests on water quality of streams helps to understand if there’s an issue concerning stormwater or erosion. Burlington is a city with impervious […]Posted December 04, 2018. -
Sense of Place
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What is a place? Which place is worth preserving? Who decides this? Speak the voices unheard. The ones with dark skin who build blue skies. A field stretches beyond the horizon. Who decides […]Posted December 04, 2018. -
Posted December 04, 2018.
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Henry David Thoreau
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“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” ~This quote resonated with me. It feels personal. It expresses the spiritual desire to be out in nature. Humans […]Posted December 03, 2018. -
Buds
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I tried to take pictures of buds from trees to identify them but a lot of the branches are out of reach. I do have one picture of a Sugar maple bud. I posted it on my pictures page.Posted December 02, 2018. -
Blog entry 12/1
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This was my last visit. I noticed the snow had melted. The stream was no longer ice covered around the edges. I found a new mushroom, a black Wood ear! I heard a lot of crows and kinglets. There were a lot of NR1 […]Posted December 01, 2018. -
Fall
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I finished my Fall art piece. I focused on the expression of the season and its burst of colors. I wanted to provoke the feeling and beauty of what fall represents. It was so fascinating to see how this one […]Posted November 30, 2018. -
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Winter Poems
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Why do we only speak of nature When trees bloom Not when buds point the sky? I admire the white color Patterns painted Of branches and leaves frozen A fossil of recent past. Why is winter […]Posted November 26, 2018. -
We are left for the soil
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There is a time in every leaf’s life when it Falls The ice freezes over their fragile bodies Melt into the ground Blended in ice Birch Maple Oaks will follow Until winter has swept its […]Posted November 26, 2018. -
Blog entry 11/25
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Centennial is covered with snow. It’s a winter wonderland! It looks so different. I got lost and couldn’t recognize my direction on my way to my spot, with which I’m so familiar. It was weird for me that I wasn’t […]Posted November 26, 2018. -
Central Park Trail
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Often, after school in high school, I would go to Central Park and follow a trail starting on 68th St. I would go across the famous white bridge and through the woody area with multiple trails by the pond. There’s […]Posted November 24, 2018.