Exposed rocks
Here you can see that the site is actually on a mild slope where groundwater is squeezed to the surface.
It is very interesting to look at how rapidly the moisture and soil conditions vary throughout the seep.
Some parts have a conventional
looking soil structure, but just adjacent might be big exposed chunks of quartz. Next to that might be a deep puddle or
a sheet of Sphagnum. Can you see the big sheet of Sphagnum, brown and green,
around the clump of pitchers in the mid-foreground?
It's interesting to compare this image to one I took of almost the
exact same area on a previous trip. The rocks
in that photograph are the same as the higher cluster in the above image.
