Shelby's Blog

Todays date was the 24 of November. Today it nearly reached 50 degrees which is rather unusual for this time of the year in Michigan. I went outside around 12:40 to my 30 by 30 area. It was a beautiful day out. It was dry and sunny and warm. the length of day has gone down significantly with it turning into winter and the day was only 9 hours and 27 minutes long. A lot had changed sense the last visit. There was no longer snow on the ground and there was almost no leaves on the trees. I saw no snow on the ground and I only felt the crunch of leaves and twigs under my feet. I heard the sounds of the builders near by but other than that it was quiet in the woods.  Here is another sketch that I did - I choose a picture of one of the pine trees in my area. These unlike other trees keep their leaves and they stay green all year long!  Here is the link to my document that I have been using to compare my visits -    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wp7xu3nIu5cYjPSjSm9gHQ...

       Today I went out around 3:45 to my field study space. The length of day toady was much shorter, it was only 9 hours and 47 minutes long! Today was a lot colder than the rest and there was even snow on the ground! The temp. was around the upper 30's. It was getting even darker even earlier so I had to make sure I got out there before the sun went down. The date was 11/14/22. Throughout the day it was cold with a little wind. There was snow that stuck to the ground overnight and stayed during the day. I heard the cars going by on the road and I also heard the voices and other sounds of the people working on our barn. I looked around and saw the same items in the same places but they all looked a little different because of the weather. The green on the pine trees stuck out because there were no other leaves on the trees. I could see the snow on the ground covering the dead leaves and I could feel it crunch under my feet. The tree I and experimenting with looked ...