[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Marion Thompson]

I can never know too much about the natural world.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 12/26/2016 2:26 PM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
> 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.
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