psssst I know I'm super late but I took these photos during my lunch break walk on Sunday and I wanna share! ;o;

Sundays I work at a native american history museum in a park nearby these lovely birch stands
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The view looking the other way across the marshes
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It's a very marshy area, so there's a raised wooden path that winds through the trees. Good thing, too, there had been a lot of rain a few nights before and there was a ton of runoff from the mountains.
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Big fat frog was appreciating the rise in water level
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Birch bark is crazy strong, the tree inside might be long dead and rotting but the bark does not care a whit.
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Another view of the boardwalk
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They look like gentle rolling ghibli hills but they're really all puddly swamps!
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And lastly, the reason why it's so good that birch bark lasts so long. This is a reproduction Wabanaki wigwam dwelling that the museum built out of branches and birch bark sheets. We have only had to touch it up once in several years!
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THERE hope at least someone on flat view sees this and likes my birches ;3; Everyone else in the thread has such lovely photos, you guys!