Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road


Tag: ferns

  • Unfurling

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    Only spread a fern frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in. ~John Muir Before there is a fern frond, there is a fiddlehead. The curled tip of an unfurling fern frond resembles the curled ornamentation (called a scroll) on the end of a Read more…