When visiting my phenology place over the weekend during the snowstorm, I saw a huge difference in the overall look of my place. The leaves have mostly all disappeared in the past week, some still being left behind (surprisingly), only the needles on the coniferous trees remained intact and stable in the snow. The crabapple trees look to have no lingering berries left, and the bushes and flowers are all gone. While I was there visiting and taking notes I was lucky to see a bunny and two squirrels running through the snow on the green, I usually seem to see a lot more squirrels during my visit, but not this time which to my guess would be because of the falling snow.
Although time felt like it flew by so fast in my first semester at UVM, I’m so glad that I got to form such a special bond with my phenology spot. I feel like as my spot changed throughout the year, I did too. I enjoyed being able to call this place my “spot” and take time out of my days to come to a place on campus and indulge in everything that it had to give to me. I’m so excited to come back from winter break and to visit my spot again to see if it looks the same, or even different, and I’m even more excited to see it at the end of my first year at UVM!
