{"id":40,"date":"2023-11-05T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/?p=40"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:10:28","slug":"november-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/2023\/11\/05\/november-2-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"changing leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back at my phenology spot, it was immediately clear to that fall had been in full swing in the time that I&#8217;d been gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked a nice secluded spot on a rock to sit for about 15 minutes to make a sketch of my area, shown below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/11\/Scannable-Document-on-Nov-5-2023-at-4_46_01-PM-792x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7734375;width:474px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/11\/Scannable-Document-on-Nov-5-2023-at-4_46_01-PM-792x1024.png 792w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/11\/Scannable-Document-on-Nov-5-2023-at-4_46_01-PM-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/11\/Scannable-Document-on-Nov-5-2023-at-4_46_01-PM-768x993.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/11\/Scannable-Document-on-Nov-5-2023-at-4_46_01-PM-1188x1536.png 1188w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/11\/Scannable-Document-on-Nov-5-2023-at-4_46_01-PM-1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The most obvious change was the leaves &#8211; the maples were fully orange-yellow, and the oaks were almost completely bare. I think I just barely missed the best foliage. Still, it was beautiful. The ground cover had also changed a lot. What was once 70% pine needles was now covered by about 90% fallen leaves. The pines also began to shed their cones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-648x365.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1-341x192.png 341w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I went back to visit the rocky ledge where I&#8217;d spotted a small bit of lichen last time, I found that it had spread quite a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, I walked down to the lake to go see if there were any ducks around, and spotted four swimming pretty close to the shore &#8211; two males and two females. I was also surprised to see that algae had begun to cover the entire shoreline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-648x365.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2-341x192.png 341w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2023\/12\/2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at my phenology spot, it was immediately clear to that fall had been in full swing in the time that I&#8217;d been gone. I picked a nice secluded spot on a rock to sit for about 15 minutes to make a sketch of my area, shown below. The most obvious change was the leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/2023\/11\/05\/november-2-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">changing leaves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"gsalbrec","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/author\/gsalbrec\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}