In this last Phenology of the semester, I really took my time walking around my spot, observing the many things around as I have seen for the past 3 blogs. Except this time, they were drastically different, the most obvious difference being that there was a white blanket of snow. The more time I spent there, the more I started to notice how I could easily see right through the woods, what made me notice that was that there was a couple walking their dog about 50 feet from me way into the trail a couple of months ago I wouldn’t have noticed that due to the leaves filling the trees. But everywhere around was pretty much bare. The animal tracks pictured were most likely that couple’s dog that had been with them or previous dogs walking the trails, but I liked the way you could see each individual ped within the dog’s footprint pressed into the snow. I also noticed during my time that there was less noise around me; I rarely heard a bird chirp or a chipmunk yell as they had in my previous visits. My favorite part of this phenology spot, as I believe I mentioned in my first-ever post, is the curved tree that I took a picture of and posted above, there’s something about my walking down to my spot and watching the curved tree get closer and closer, knowing that I have made it to my phenology spot.