[Magdalen] Happy Christmas
James Oppenheimer-Crawford
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 05:12:51 UTC 2016
Cleaning up the WTC, they finally got down to bed rock and a number of
these potholes were revealed, where boulders had gotten into whirlpools and
carved out huge "pots". You can see a few pictures in the image selection
process of Google.
James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**” -- *Leonard Nimoy
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> 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.
> >
> >
>
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