Today I finally got the chance to revisit my trail. Unfortunately, the trail was covered in ice and very hard to walk on, but I reached my spot. My tree is slightly over a mile deep in Centennial Woods and elevated on a hill. The tree looked to be peeling more than it was before. …
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Phenology at Home
While I was home for spring break, I decided to document the phenology of my favorite state park, Moraine. Moraine State Park is located in Western PA, north of Pittsburgh. I walked my dog on a horse path in the woods, near Lake Arthur. This trail went along some grasses and then looped back into …
Winter Trees
Today I went deeper into Centennial woods looking at all the different tree species. I found a Paper Birch tree and decided to document it because it is one of the easiest trees for me to identify. This tree happened to have some short branches low to the ground that I could see, but they …