04/11/2020 It is November. The maple trees have lost their leaves. All along the bare maple bra
04/11/2020 It is November. The maple trees have lost their leaves. All along the bare maple branches, where sunlight now reaches, the licorice ferns appear. They’ll grow until spring, when the new-opening maple leaves will block their sunlight, and then they’ll dry out and curl up and wait for winter’s return. They are backwards plants, appearing in winter while the forest sleeps and disappearing in the spring when it awakens. They do not touch the ground. They get water from the fog and nutrients from whatever bird poop and dead moss is on the branches. They create themselves from air.This is what the forest dreams, when it sleeps in winter: the smell of licorice and ginger, a green like stained glass windows, a light in a high place. -- source link
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