Tamarack Bog

At Lake Bemidji State Park we had a picnic and discovered that Big Brother's hands were larger than Daddy's. Then we hiked to and across(on a boardwalk) a Tamarack Bog. According to Webster's dictionary a bog is wet spongy ground, a poorly drained, usually acid area rich in plant residues, frequently surrounding an area of open water and having a characteristic flora as of sedges, heaths and sphagnum moss. A Tamarack is a larch of the northern US or Canada. What then is a larch I asked myself? A larch is any of a genus of the pine family with short fascicled, deciduous leaves. Oh, my, this could go on all night, fascicle means a small bundle. Thank goodness I remembered what deciduous means, do you?






deciduous- loosing all leaves seasonally