[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[ME Michaud]

Cool. We do have fens here. Fenway Park is so named because it sits
adjacent to the Back Bay Fens.

The Fenway is also home to the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum, Simmons and Emmanuel Colleges and the victory gardens
(still producing after all these years).
-M

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> 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/72157631553826
> 163
>
> More than you'd ever want to know -
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
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> -----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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