Doug's fern

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Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on May 23, 2011 at 9:30am

Sorry, Jodie.  No banana slugs here.  We were just talking about seeing them in the pacific northwest.  Thisshot is in da' nort' woods of Wisconsin.  Trust me, you DON'T want to eat banana slugs!  The sucker I was talking about was a definite gross-out attempt by an enterprising entrepenuer in the northwest.  It WAS banana flavored. ;-)

Comment by Jodie Ann Christiansen on May 22, 2011 at 11:41am

Banana   slugs?     I am lloking   closely  to see  one  of  those       ......eatable,  as  well?       oh  my,  would  like   nutritional    info     on  these    allegedly  taste-y   food  source   ..........perhaps  business/market  these    together  ?  !!!       thanks.

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on May 19, 2011 at 11:46am

Thank you, Maryanne!  I'm not sure if ferns are in groves, stands, or mats.  I suppose it depends on their density or somethng like that.  I've been on the Olympic Penninsula before and the ferns there were quite amazing as well as the banana slugs!  I believe that I bought a couple of banana slug suckers to bring back to my nieces at the time. Yumm!  They were banana flavored as I recall ;-)  

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on May 18, 2011 at 6:52pm

Beautiful photo. Reminds me of the fern dense woods in CA where I spent 16 years. We would go hiking around the Big Basin area and have to work our way through dense groves (does one call hundreds of ferns groves?) and also we had to avoid stepping on banana slugs! Again, a beautiful picture.

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on May 18, 2011 at 2:10pm

Ha!  Thanks, Lisa!  This was my buddy Doug's favorite fern and still is I guess.  He and I worked archaeological survey in the deep woods in northern Wisconsin a couple of years back.  Many of these new shots are from that time.

Comment by wiffledust on May 18, 2011 at 2:05pm

it's a dark and rainy, but very green day here...and it looks just like this! LOVE IT!