[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Charles Wohlers]

Technically, a bog is acidic, while fens are basic. Both are spring-fed - 
like a filled-in kettle pond. Bogs, being acidic, are harder places for 
plants to survive, so you get mosses, black spruce, pitcher plants, etc. 
Lots of peat underneath. Fens tend to be a bit richer in plant & animal 
life. Eastern North America being what it is, we mostly have bogs. There are 
a few fens, however, one being right near us: http://tinyurl.com/glogvqy.

Pictures of a bog: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwohlers/albums/72157631255245918
And of a fen: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwohlers/albums/72157631553826163

More than you'd ever want to know -

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: ME Michaud
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 9:47 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Happy Christmas

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.
>
>