I’ve found that leaving Vermont to go back down to Boston is sometimes nice because of the slight warmer weather! I live in a suburb on the outskirts of Boston, and am lucky enough to have multiple options of green area to explore to my heart’s desire. I am incredibly privileged to be able to …
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I took my last walk of the semester over to Centennial Woods on a sunny day in the 60s earlier this week. It was the warmest and sunniest day that I had seen my phenology spot since the fall, and it was so wonderful to see the little heads of new life poking up from …
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Last Saturday, 4/30, my friends from my lab, Bella and Sam, and I went down to the Burlington Intervale to check out part of the City Nature Celebration! Bella’s recurring phenology spot happens to be far in the back of the trails behind the Intervale, so we took a nice, long walk through the area …
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I was curious about tracking in the greater Burlington area and decided to take a morning stroll through the nature reservation next to Saint Michael’s College just on the other side of the Winooski River. The snow was thick, and it was clear to me that I wasn’t the only one who had decided to …
1/29 Phenology Spot Posting My last visit to my beautiful hemlock grove in the middle of Centennial woods was just after some of the first snowfalls of the season. Tips of green ferns were still peeking out from under the white blanket, and a layer of White Pine needles and browned Sugar Maple and Red …
Centennial Woods visit 12/11/21 I was absolutely stunned by the beauty that had struck my phenology spot this past week the morning after a snowfall! I bundled up significantly more than I ever had before a venture through the woods, and boy, was I glad I did. The ground that was once covered in vibrant …
Event Map: City of South Burlington 11/12 Last weekend, my friend and I took a little stroll down Main St into town. It was a lovely day out, and easy to admire the more developed area built in and around our natural surroundings. The waterfront was stunning, we caught it just as the sun was …
This week’s visit to my focal phenology spot 11/1/21 🙂 I visited my focal phenology spot on an absolutely perfect day this week. It was chilly but incredibly sunny, and I sat down in a patch of sun by a stream bank on the edge of the general area I’ve been observing. Here, I sat …
Welcome to UVM Blogs. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! My Visit to Centennial Woods’ Hemlock Grove: Phenology Blog #1 In the midst of the stress that the first month of adjusting to college brought me, my first time visiting Centennial Woods was a breath of fresh air and …