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from town, river, and sea

Where I live there is a plant called the resurrection fern that grows on the trunks of some old oaks. Like Spanish moss it is an epiphyte, a plant that uses other plants as a platform, a scaffolding, but is not a parasite, taking its nourishment from whatever debris and water collects around it. In summertime dry heat shrivels it to an uncomely gray-bro…