By Way of Ferns

Broad Meadow Brook, Worcester, Massachusetts
 
This place 
is named after a brook that passes through unnoticed.

 WHY?

Ferns, ferns...
 in all their beauty,
  mingle with trees in the freshest creations.

Then this meadow, overgrown in joyful sways.
 Just watch and feel!!!
  Grass, grass...
    and the brook. I don't see him but I know he is HERE... 

Dancing Spirits

Mass Audubon Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

I love walking through fern-lands...
   ... forests with moist grounds where ferns live happily in the shadow of trees...

Ferns are one of the oldest plants, dating back to the middle Devonian, some 390 million years ago. They became the most dominant plants on the planet some 300 million years ago, in the Carboniferous period, when Earth abounded with tropical swamp forests - the ideal places for ferns to thrive - and left us all this coal we are burning today...

   ... looking at their fronds... curving, twisting, rolling... dancing spirits from far-distant times...

And Then THEY Come Along

Kalopa Nature Trail, Kalopa State Park, Hawai’i aka Big Island

On the rainy slopes of Mauna Kea. She has been asleep for over 4,000 years. Long enough for plants to make their MARK. And this is how it looks when LIFE takes over.

How do you do it?

Kauai

I know. But now that you ask, I DON'T.