The Marsh Project

  Field study info Same spot photo Date   November 11 Time 10:45 - 11:00 Climate / conditions   very cloudy, windy, and brisk. Almost no sunlight the entire time I was there. Temperature   55 degrees Length of day 7:31 am - 5:24 pm ( 9 hours and 53 minutes) Felt, smelled, heard, seen   The ground was very dry and so were all the sticks I picked up (there were a lot more on the ground than before).   I smelled a bonfire scent faintly and also the smell of very crisp windy air. I heard a bit of highway noise and some branches rustling, but NO LEAVES on the branches, those are all completely gone. I also heard no birds at all this time which was strange and I didn’t realize how much noise that had made before until they were gone. Almost none of the landscape had any color now. It has all transitioned into grays and golds. Changes noticed No birds singing, no leaves on the trees or on the ground, and not much color in the plants. And lots of the formerly green...

  Field study info Same spot photo Date   October 28, 2024 Time 6:40 Climate / conditions   Brisk, but not much of a breeze, just crisp air. Half the sky was whisky and/or stretched looking clouds, the other was clear blue and the beginnings of the sunset. Temperature   55 degrees   Length of day 8:14 AM - 6:41 PM (10 hours 27 minutes) Felt, smelled, heard, seen   I heard mainly highway noises today: rumbling of concrete under wheels, horns, engines, and lots of tires. Occasionally when those sounds would die down I would hear bits of chirping from different segments of brush around the water and near lines of trees.           Saw mostly brown today, nearly all the trees have lost their leaves due to wind and rain. The grasses are golden brown and starting to sound rustley when the breeze comes through. The sky was very clear and the sunset light was beautiful, but about halfway through the visit it was hard to see because the light...

  Field study info Same spot photo Date   October 13, 2024 Time 3:45 Climate / conditions   Breezy, pretty cloudy, but I could still see blue sky underneath. Southwest was very overcast, but clouds got lighter Eastward. Rainy earlier this morning, but no puddles that I could see. Temperature   58 degrees Length of day 7:28 AM - 7:33 PM (12 hours 5 minutes) Felt, smelled, heard, seen   Heard lots of insect buzzing to the west   / Northwest (to my right). And highway noise South and East (in front and to my left). Minimal birds chirping, but quite a bit of leaves rustling above me (picture of said trees below). Around 3:55 I heard thunder and saw   the sky get completely covered by gray wispy clouds. (Also heard thunder at 4:03, 4:09, 4:15, and started raining at 4:20) Saw a few birds flying from the woods area to the brush / into the cat tails. Also a family of ducks in the still water. Saw that some of the green plants I took pictures of before are beg...