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Mon Sep-17-07 04:25 PM
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Mon Sep-17-07 04:37 PM
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Mon Sep-17-07 04:51 PM
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6. It's big. It's heavy. It's wood. |
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It's better than bad, it's good!
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Mon Sep-17-07 04:38 PM
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2. I'm partial to Finzel Swamp, myself... |
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It is March and I have left the tidy community of Finzel perched on the ridge of Little Savage Mountain, left its black roads, its tavern, the Community Fire Hall, and small, dark houses, each with its plume of smoke rising into the winter air, turned east and dropped into the white valley of Finzel Swamp.
I have walked out of order and certainty and into the margins of a land still shadowed by the Arctic.
Finzel Swamp is a relict community, formed thousands of years ago when the icy tongues of glaciers pushed Canadian flora and fauna south for hundreds of miles. When the glaciers receded some ten thousand years ago, most of the boreal plants and animals migrated slowly back with them.
But not here. Here they stayed, the tamaracks and black calla, in a poorly drained bowl perched high in the Maryland Appalachians, protected by the even higher ridges on either side. Here in this frozen valley, now owned by the Nature Conservancy, there is no asphalt, no stop sign, no sidewalk, just the wide, white space, pathless, interrupted only by the frozen etchings of alder and black spruce, the scribbled, heart-shaped tracks of deer, the marginalia of some creator who mused for a while on the edge of the page, then dropped the pen and headed north, leaving us to decipher the notations. From "Stirring the Mud : On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination" by Barbara Hurd
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Mon Sep-17-07 04:40 PM
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3. Looks like it would be a popular hangout for toads! |
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:D Now if it only had a disco ball and mood lighting...
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Tue Sep-18-07 08:35 AM
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:30 PM
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9. Yes! This Scog pleases me. n/t |
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Tue Sep-18-07 08:27 AM
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7. I do NOT like this fog...it scares me! |
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