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Thursday, November 12. 2009

More Yankeeland autumn woods


Christmas Fern. From the leaf litter, you can see that these woods are mainly Oak, Beech, and some Maple.







Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 05:06 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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This is what makes Maggie's great.

You just don't see a lot of fern articles on the other blog sites.

Or "Chipmunk of the Week", for that matter. :)

While I've never been real big on flowers, I've always found ferns to be quite interesting. It's amazing how big they can get. When my parents moved into a new house in '63, there was a small fern in a corner of the flower bed. By the time they sold it years later, it was a friggin' tree!

We have a lot of ferns down here in the Keys, of course, but they're the broadleaf type, like you see in those African jungle movies. It's...it's almost like we're in the tropics!
#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2009-11-12 08:17 (Reply)
I was raised in California, but have lived more years on the east coast. I love the woods out here. Not as spectacular as the big pines and redwoods out west.
The eastern woods have a subtle and quiet beauty.
Good for walking around in and thinking.
#2 Sarah on 2009-11-12 10:31 (Reply)
It's the smell, the crunch, the color, the chill, the...

Doc, you should come North for the fall. (I used to live in Islamorada and needed more seasons in my life.)
#3 jma on 2009-11-12 11:47 (Reply)
Lovely. And the stone walls. And the stone walls. There was a NE winter green called Creeping Jenny but I haven't been able find corresponding Google photos of it. What Google photos call Creeping Jenny is not what I learned Creeping Jenny to be.
#4 Gringo on 2009-11-12 12:22 (Reply)
The falling down stone fence caught my eye. I am wondering if we are looking at old farm ground that has reverted to trees? I have read that that has happened in New England.
#5 feeblemind on 2009-11-12 14:57 (Reply)
yes, of course. there was hardly any woodland left in New England in 1870. All farms or pastures, plus some isolated woodlots for lumber, Maple sugaring, firewood.
#5.1 Bird Dog on 2009-11-12 15:34 (Reply)
Something there is that doesn't want a wall, that wants it down.

Yes, that was probably farm land. When I was in college at Williams we used to wander through Hopkins Forest, which formed the northwest corner of Massachusetts, and the wild land trailed off into Vermont and upstate New York as well. You'd be hiking through the middle of nowhere, but would regularly come across the remains of stone walls. It was all farms, once upon a time.
#5.2 Jim on 2009-11-13 00:38 (Reply)

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