2/29 Leap Day laptop licorice

A busy day meant that I didn't get out to explore. A little bit of leap day snow fell, complete with a little thunder and lightning. Before heading to bed, I thought I'd look through the pictures from the first few days and identify at least one of the things I'd photographed. Here was the winner:

The ferns running up these maples are apparently Licorice Ferns. Each fern grows from a rhizome which runs down through the mossy surface. The rhizomes, it seems, have a sweet flavor, although several sites encouraged me not to have much more than a nibble.