On the board walk

Getting to the "Bog board walk"

  Yesterday the morning was cool and fall-like, it was 41 degrees when I went for my morning walk, but after returning home and cleaning up; Linda and I went to Bangor to take another kind of walk.
The Bangor/Orono Bog Board Walk is a trail part of which is in each town.  After parking the car you walk in on a dirt trail that leads directly to the board walk, there are other trails in the Bangor Forest Lands that people use to do other things.
  Arriving at the boards we complete about a one-mile loop the trail starts and stops in the same place.  It starts out in a mature forest, but in a wetland, yesterday the forest floor was puddling with pools of water.  As we leave the forest the line is just about instant, from forest to ombrotrophic zone is more than a line it's one step in one and one foot in the other.  The Ombrotrophic Zone (caution: the geezer has learned a new word) means that plants on the surface get their nutrients from the air rather than the soil; that means trees are tiny in comparison to their ages.  You can't plant seeds either plants re-produce by "layering"; if an adult trees dies and tips over new trees will start from the old trees roots or branches.  The peat moss here is 14 to 16 feet deep, it's a quite different place, and cold late in the fall - one year we wore winter coats and hats and were still cold.

The boards start and stop here.

From forest to "atmospheric zone"

Lots of Pitcher Plants (the red ones with veins) here, they eat flies, these
are next summers plants.

The moss has already turned from green to red.  There are cranberry bushes and rosemary here too.

Well we're stuck in the zone, nothing but air, we'll finish tomorrow.