The spot that I chose definitely differs from my spot in Burlington. I purposely wanted to select a place where it would be different, so I’d expose myself to a new form of land and a place where even though it’s not the same, I can still find peace and a calmness to it. My thanksgiving break spot has more Sugar Maple trees and birches compared to my spot at the Intervale. Additionally, there’s more wetlands, so there are a lot of ferns, a stream, fungi, and lichen present throughout my site. The bizarre part about my place for thanksgiving is that it’s a space where there’s wetlands/woods right next to open fields, which I found really interesting. The open land has many types of field grasses and small rodents that hibernate in these grasses.
A similarity between the two spots is that they both have Beech trees, wild asters and Japanese barberry. I visited my thanksgiving spot twice, once when it was snowing and another time when it was not. It was cool to see the differences in the land when it was covered in snow versus when it was not.
I decided to let my mind destress here, so I did some art when I was here. I based it off of the environmental/natural artist named Andy Goldsworthy, who designs and produces art using natural materials in order for the creations to blend in with it’s environment. He inspired me to do the same. I stacked stones and cloaked my creation with moss and acorns. Here’s a photo:
