{"id":13773,"date":"2020-04-06T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:16:50","slug":"take-5-babbling-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-babbling-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Babbling Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While any amount of time spent in nature has been shown to boost your mood, reduce stress levels, and improve overall health and wellbeing, there is something particularly soothing about the gentle, continuous babbling of a forest stream. Close your eyes and picture a quiet spot in the woods somewhere, with moss-covered rocks and warm sunlight filtering down through the canopy, dappling the water and leaf litter with a haphazard checkerboard of verdant light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting outside to enjoy special places like these can be challenging right now, so here are five gorgeous photos of babbling brooks from our annual Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest for you to enjoy. We hope that imagining yourself in the gentle repose of these scenes will bring you a moment of peace, serenity, and clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall River in Otis, MA \u00a9 Geoffrey Coelho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Waterfall
Waterfall over mossy rocks at Mount Everett State Reservation, South Egremont, MA \u00a9 Rebekah Ford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Wahconah
Wahconah Falls in Dalton, MA \u00a9 JG Coleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Doane's
Doane’s Falls, Royalston, MA \u00a9 Trevor Meunier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
A hidden waterfall in Colrain, MA \u00a9 Vivien Venskowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While any amount of time spent in nature has been shown to boost your mood, reduce stress levels, and improve overall health and wellbeing, there is something particularly soothing about the gentle, continuous babbling of a forest stream. Close your eyes and picture a quiet spot in the woods somewhere, with moss-covered rocks and warm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":13774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[261,200],"class_list":["post-13773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-take-5","tag-landscapes","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/1291Geoffrey_Coelho13047.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-3A9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10778,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-great-blue-herons\/","url_meta":{"origin":13773,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Great Blue Herons","author":"Ryan D.","date":"April 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Migrating great blue herons arrive in New England as early as the latter part of March, where they join the small population of great blues that overwinter here. 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