> Nice photo! Thanks, Jim.
> I can't think of any of those large swamps in my area, > Winchester/Woburn/Lexington... but there's a lot down in the area where > you shot this photo. There's at least one of 'em right on the southern side of Route 2 in that area (well, it might be west of Lexington, I guess) which typically (and famously) has a large number of heron nests in the trees. I drove by the swamp in my photo both on Sunday morning and yesterday morning (these were not really intentional trips just to go by the swamp - it just happens to be alongside a highway that I use frequently), and the snow-on-top-of-ice cover was still complete on Sunday, but was just starting to thaw at one end on Monday. > Some are abandoned cranberry bogs. Yes indeed, and there are a large number of bogs here in southeastern Massachusetts (both active and abandoned). But a lot of swamps are caused by erosion after forest fires, and that was my connection to the PUG theme that month of "Earth, Air, Fire, and Water" (I think that the theme actually was just "Elements", but I went for an interpretation of the ancient view of those four basic elements in my photo). Fred
