One of the sights I enjoy seeing as our Spring develops are the ferns. I have loved ferns since finding fern fossils as a youngster. I was blown over realizing that the rock I held in my hand had once been a plant that grew 250 million years ago. Knowing that has always made ferns seem so primal and ancient. Their existence and survival over all that time continues to fascinate me.
I love the way ferns develop. The stem comes up supporting a “fiddlehead” a spherical shape at the top of the stem made up of leaves. The fiddlehead slowly unwinds into the fronds of the fern. The shape of the fiddlehead also reminds me of Art Nouveau works that mimic nature.
Because our end of the Robson Valley is part of the Interior Temperate Rain Forest, we have lots of ferns that grow around us.
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