{"id":94,"date":"2020-03-27T19:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-03-27T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:32:01","slug":"home-again-getting-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/2020\/03\/27\/home-again-getting-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Again: Getting Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Week of\nMay 24th<\/sup>– 31st<\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the\numbrella of quarantine, my communication with nature has become limited. There\nis no longer a reason to go outside to walk to get to classes and it is easy to\nfind yourself distracted in the comfort of your own home. Sometimes you forget\nto give yourself a chance to breath fresh air, but when you do, it feels amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 26th<\/sup> I went for a walk in my backyard which mainly consists of woods. The farther you go back into the woods there is evidence of a metal fence my dad installed when I was little. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1. The broken down fence
Menice, K. (ca. 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In case I ran off, my parents wanted to make sure that I didn\u2019t go into the depth of the woods that goes for a couple of miles. When I was out there, I noticed that this expanse of forest was much denser that other forested areas I\u2019ve seen because it has had almost no human interference. No trails for walking were cleared and there weren\u2019t any rock walls or trash left behind. There were no clearings, no tree markings, just thick and full woods so dense that almost the whole forest floor was shaded. I also noticed that there were a lot of dead trees, both standing and fallen. Since there is such a high forest density there is more competition for sunlight which ends with a fair amount of dead plant matter. The leaves that covered the ground underneath the thin layer of snow were bouncy from the lack of interaction to compress them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2. Dense forest in my backyard
Menice, K. (ca. 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was evident though that animals trek through this area whether often or not. There was a deer print that wasn\u2019t too deep into the woods that made its presence very clear to my eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 3. Deer print defined by the thin layer of snow
Menice, K. (ca. 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There have\nalso been four different occasions in the past two weeks or so where I have\ngone for runs and it has helped me to see how fast the weather has been changing\nhere. The first time I went for a run it was 40 degrees with no precipitation\nand then the next day we got an inch of snow. A couple of days later it was\nalmost 60 degrees and running in a sweatshirt and leggings became suffocating. Two\ndays after that it was freezing with a light mist and strong winds. Most\nrecently it has been 60 degrees again in the peak of the day with a warm blazing\nsunshine. The air has started to smell like spring too which I welcome with\nopen arms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These unforeseen\ncircumstances of having to move back home have left me to appreciate the little\nthings more. Waking up early and seeing the sun rise is calming and going for a\nrun in the cool evening air leaves you wanting to breath more, not only because\nyou need oxygen, but because the crispness in the air is refreshing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 4. What I see when I got for a run
Menice, K. (ca. 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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