On my return home on Friday I drove across Fir Island in the Skagit River delta. The island is a result of the Skagit River splitting into two forks on the delta as it nears the Salish Sea. Fir Island has become a winter home for snow geese. I had a nice view of the flocks coving the fields with Mount Baker in the background.
Monthly Ferns—Prairie Quillwort & Scale Tree
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Prairie Quillwort is 50 centimeters tall (© 2015 Robbin Moran); Scale Tree
is 50 meters tall (source). Both are lycophytes—formerly "Fern Allies".This
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