[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Marion Thompson]

I agree with these distinctions.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 12/26/2016 9:47 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
> I come from a part of the world where there's a distinction:
>
> marsh (salt water wetland)
> swamp (fresh water wetland)
> bog (damp mossy wetland surrounded by woods or scrubland).
>
> We have kettle ponds, areas where the retreating glaciers suddenly let go a
> cascade of meltwater and scraped-up stones that scoured a round hole
> deep ito the ground. Fed by springwater and rainwater both, to come upon
> one in the woods is a paintable (or photographable) pleasure.
> -M
>
> On Monday, December 26, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Bog as in slang for the loo.  But I would speak of bog as a swamp as a bog.
>>
>>