Bright Water Bog

[asakiyume]

We went for a walk at Bright Water Bog in Shutesbury, MA, yesterday. It was a misty, moisty, equinoctial day, with ice still present in places.

It was perfect. I do love-love-love places that blur water and land. Best of all? There were cranberries. Enchanting.

Cranberry, lower portion of the photo




Cranberry, upper portion of the photo


Cranberry, near the center of the photo


I saw a few just out of reach and was going to put a foot off the boardwalk and onto a tussock to pick one.

"I don't know if that's solid," Wakanomori said.

So I pressed on it with my hand, and down, down my hand went into that cold water. Not solid! Magic.

Canada geese or maybe otters or moose deliver mail here, I think:


Actually it's a geocache location.... shhhhhhh

This lichen-bespangled pine sapling is enjoying the acidity of the bog.


So much beauty--a mingling world of blurred boundaries.

Comments

[rimturse]

Gorgeous! So, similar to where I live, and yet, there's something just slightly "off" with the colours and vegetation, which makes it very interesting. :)

[asakiyume]

I am so glad you have bogs near you! The coloring of this one will probably change as spring advances.

[rimturse]

They definitely have their own beauty. We don't have that many left in Denmark. Only 4.5% of the country is covered in bogs, compared to 25% some 125 years ago. We're lucky to have them and other similar-looking wet areas fairly close to where we live. :)

And we of course have bog bodies, the best known are the Tollund man and the Grauballe man.

[asakiyume]

When we went walking in the bog, part of me wanted to lie down in it and just be a bog body!

[rimturse]

lol... hopefully that won't happen for a very long time!