photo courtesy of Utah State University Cooperative Extension
Where bracken ferns grow thickly, if you are nimble enough (and probably small enough) you can scoot on your back until you are thick in the middle of them, underneath their lace, and you'll find that you have a kind of private room there, and you'll be invisible, because no one will ever look for you under a canopy of bracken ferns, as it is the most unlikely of places to linger.
A lovely notion... the reality in the Highlands of Scotland... Bracken is where the midges hide. Brushing the bracken as you pass, the attack comes from a canopy-clad army. Fighting with tooth and claw, they rise in a cloud Thickly, quickly, wildly through the bracken your plump legs pump the ground. Fairies and small people have brokered a symbiotic truce?
ah, but now I know where to look for you....
ReplyDeleteTara, you're right about that!
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ReplyDeletethe reality in the Highlands of Scotland...
Bracken is where the midges hide.
Brushing the bracken as you pass, the attack comes from a canopy-clad army.
Fighting with tooth and claw, they rise in a cloud
Thickly, quickly, wildly through the bracken your plump legs pump the ground.
Fairies and small people have brokered a symbiotic truce?
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"bracken ferns" -- how beautiful
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, when you visit Seattle, we'll go in search of a fine glade of bracken ferns.
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