On our way up to E5N1's concert yesterday, we stopped to stretch our legs at the Orono Bog. It wasn’t until we arrived that we realized this was part of the same nature preserve we had visited while E5N1 was auditioning at the nearby college earlier in the year. On the previous occasion, however, the bog boardwalk had been closed for the season.
We paused to admire an area of trilliums at the entrance before stepping onto the boardwalk. A few panels in we realized that it was much more noticeably floating than the one at our nearby bog at home. It even proved a little disorienting for some but the views were worth it. The wooded area felt almost prehistoric with ferns and large-leafed skunk cabbage growing all around the bases of the trees. When we emerged into the open marshland, we found a huge expanse of red moss, stunted tamarack, low growing blueberry bushes, and more pitcher plants than I’d ever seen. Like our local Saco Heath, it is an extraordinary place and strangely beautiful.
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| From TL: Floating boardwalks, Rhodora, swamp laurel, star-tipped reindeer lichen, sphagnum moss, northern highbush blueberry, painted trillium, fringed polygala, purple pitcher plant |
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