Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Cranberry Bogs
I had looked at this view several times in Google Maps, and thought it might help all of you readers out there to see how big the cranberry is a part of this part of the country. The map is satellite view of a small portion of where we were (blue dot). This part of the map was pictured in fall, all those red fields are about to be harvested, likely recently flooded cranberry bogs. If you go look at google maps now, and pull back outside of this, there will be bunches of similarly shaped green fields, which must have been taken in the summer, then merged with this other satellite image area. Anyhow - if you go and zoom at the right level, you'll see why this area lives and dies by the cranberry harvest, and just how much land we're talking about. Pretty wild. Link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=plymouth,+ma&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=64.113178,79.189453&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Plymouth,+Massachusetts&ll=41.922972,-70.769806&spn=0.12006,0.154667&t=h&z=13
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2 comments:
I thought the song was Strawberry fields forever not cranberry fields forever. I am impressed as I love cransberries in any form. Particularly in the wine form, and dried, you know craisins. Tell us about the unusal way they are used.
Mom
I remember Jo's Cranberry Orange, and that was great. Cranberries, in their original form - the pilgrims didn't know how to eat them. So they shipped them back to England on ships as ballast, so that the empty ships would stay upright after bringing cargo to the mainland.
I'm buying and shipping you a bottle of Cran Wine soon....
R.
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