{"id":497,"date":"2019-02-22T05:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/?p=497"},"modified":"2019-02-22T05:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T05:56:39","slug":"lake-brandt-2-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/uncategorized\/lake-brandt-2-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Brandt 2.7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A\nfew Thursdays ago, Greensboro experienced what was potentially the most beautiful\nweather February in North Carolina has ever seen. I decided it was too nice to\nbe inside, and, 4 o\u2019clock class notwithstanding, set myself up for the\nafternoon at Lake Brandt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I drove to the Lake Brandt Marina, a place I had only been once before, over a year ago. Then I walked for several minutes down the Nathaniel Greene Trail until I found a spot a bit off the path by the water. Once I located the appropriate trees, I set up my hammock, got out my book, and stayed there until sunset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This\nis a picture I took of the sunset from the Marina as I was leaving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nlast time I visited Lake Brant was late summer going into fall, so going back\nin early February was a pretty big contrast. I am not a huge fan of winter or cold\nweather, so I definitely preferred my first visit, even though the weather was\nso nice. The trees were so bare, and in my opinion green leaves look much nicer\nwith the water of the lake than the empty branches present in February. I\u2019m looking\nforward to spring when everything will be green and alive again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\nhoping more things will be growing in my future visits\u2026 there were plenty of\ntrees, but not a lot of plant life to identify. Brief research does not yield very\nmuch information on the plant and animal life of Lake Brandt, or the history\nsurrounding it. I did learn that Lake Brandt is one of the two main reservoirs that\nsupply Greensboro\u2019s water, and the lake was originally built in 1925. Lake\nBrandt is a 816 acre area, and was named after Leon Brandt, Greensboro\u2019s Mayor\nin the years 1907 and 1908. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe future I would like to do more research on the history of this area, as\nwell as identifying the plant and animal life. Towards the end of my most\nrecent visit, a person wearing a \u201cstaff\u201d t-shirt very politely reminded me that\nthe gates would be closing at 5pm and I would need to move my car if I wanted\nto stay. I could potentially talk to them or one of their colleagues about the\nhistory surrounding the lake and the local wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nMarina was very quiet when I was there, which makes sense considering it was a\nrandom day in February. During the summer there are rentals available including\nboats and paddleboards, and I\u2019m sure the hiking and biking trails are much more\nfrequented as well. Fishing is another popular activity at Lake Brandt, it\nwould be interesting to learn about the types of fish that are most common in\nthe reservoir. I\u2019m excited to learn about the history, as well as plant and animal\nlife of Lake Brandt, and explore more than just the few minutes I walked down\none of the trails. I can\u2019t wait for the weather to get warm so that I\u2019ll\nactually want to be outside again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few Thursdays ago, Greensboro experienced what was potentially the most beautiful weather February in North Carolina has ever seen. I decided it was too nice to be inside, and, 4 o\u2019clock class notwithstanding, set myself up for the afternoon at Lake Brandt. I drove to the Lake Brandt Marina, a place I had only … Continue reading “Lake Brandt 2.7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/classes\/english\/228-2019s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}