How about an Urban Nature post?

[urbpan]

It's been a long time, but you've all been so kind and helpful! Here is a set of photos from our dogwalk this past Sunday, in Olmsted Park in Boston and Brookline.



I think I'll be collecting Signs of Spring until the third week of June. This week: Skunk Cabbage. These are the flowers, which appear before the foliage.



A little bit of wood ear.



A lot of wood ear.



Spring Pond, one of the least urban-looking urban places in Boston.



The Artist getting skunk cabbage flower pictures.





This rock was used as a perch for some rodent to eat acorns on.



Blocks of apartment buildings on the Brookline side of the park.

Comments

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I just did a quick web search and didn't find anything right away - sometimes it's called the Arcto-Tertiary "Geoflora." I remember my biogeography professor telling us there was a good review paper on it, so if you don't mind academic journal articles, I could get the reference for you...otherwise I'm sure there are books (or chapters in books) about it...I'll see what I can dig up!