On
Marshall Street, just past Kettlebrook where the road dips down hill and
intersects with Hill Road, is a nice patch of wetland on the southeast corner
of the road. In a month or so it will be teeming with new plant and animal
life, but for now there’s not much to show, save for the sere cattail heads and
broken clones of rush grass that poke only an inch or so above the water.
I
imagine even now that the water can’t be more than 40 degrees, and any egg or
seed must assuredly wait for favorable conditions. Still, not all is dormant,
for the rush grass is now tinged with a deep green, a line no more than 1/8
inch at the base of each clone, with the predominance of dry brown grass
sticking up beyond. The cattails too have green at their base, where new growth
and photosynthesis are beginning.
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