I walked out near the airstrip to collect a "square foot" of tundra. Not so easy as the woody roots of some plants would not break. If I'd had a shovel I would have dug a soil profile to see what was taking place down under. What I'm told is that I would have found about 4-6 inches of topsoil, then 6-8 inches of sand from the glacial runoffs, then ice, permafrost.
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| willow and blueberries |
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| marsh about two feet deep |
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| bear berries and lowbush cranberries with some labrador tea |
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| thick moss |
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| bear berries (black), lowbush cranberries (red) |
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| burgandy leaves are spent salmonberries |
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| rust moss, white lichen |
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| lichen with crowberry plant poking through |
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| crowberry minus little black berry |
Cindy, those colors shots of the tundra are marvelous.May I copy some of them for my file? You have a gift for recognition of what is beautiful. We are on the road one day out! Happy week. Hope Halloween was terriific.
ReplyDeleteFor you Jim, the world! Have a great trip.
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