LATE DAY BOG SKY

one would think the grand landscape would be hard to find here in marion, at least in the sense of the american west.  however, there is at least one open space where a wide open vista is still possible....

i took this last fall, when the water was low from summer heat and bog drainage.  this is the northeast pond that feeds the working bogs of the white eagle property.  the cranberry bogs were started there in the 1920's and have been worked continuously since, very successfully.  in maps of marion from the last half of the 19th century this area was called "rocky bog".  the huge boulders piled nearby, dug out to build the bog, are a testament to that name.