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I gave my adventure buddy, my sister Marie, a book today. It is Naturally Curious by Mary Holland, A Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New England.
Ok, so it is New England not Michigan but it really covers the northeast U.S. and it has all nature not just wildflowers, it's a very good book. I was able to borrow a copy through Mel Cat (Michigan eLibrary Catalog).
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We saw this nest low in a field and we checked Naturally Curious and we found answers right there on the spot.
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We also walked at Aman Park, to find a bog? I'm not sure there is a bog at Aman but I thought I read something like that somewhere online. And, of course, everything you read on the Internet is true, right? That's it for this day, a very interesting day.
There used to be a small bog north of the lake at Aman Park, but that was many years ago, and it has long since wooded over. When I was a boy, forty-five years ago, you could find a narrow strip of sphagnum moss with pitcher plants, sundews, pink ladyslippers, white fringed orchids, and tall tamaracks. But it was becoming overgrown with huckleberries, and the sun-loving plants were languishing, and today all traces of the bog have long since vanished. I was told that the white fringed orchid was plentiful there at one time. I found only a single plant there when I was a kid, but I found it late in the blooming season, and by then the bog was mostly overgrown. In an early edition of his book Orchids of the Western Great Lakes Region, Fred Case mentioned a small bog in West Michigan where the orchid grew so thickly that a person couldn't walk in some places without trampling the plants. I'm quite sure the Aman Park bog was the one he had in mind. It's possible that boggy conditions are establishing themselves around the lake by now, though I haven't looked there in years.
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