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"Snowbanks lie in the summer meadows of high mountains. A continuous
blanket of snow covered these meadows throughout the winter but as the
snow melted, it thinned and separated into a thousand snowbanks. Each day,
the edges of the melting snowbanks recede, exposing more of the dead vegetation
of last year flattened by nine months of snow. A brown ring of freshly-exposed
soggy ground surrounds each shrinking snowbank. This brown ring is the
"shadow" of last week's larger snowbank....
"Near the snowbank a species is just emerging. But a few feet farther, that species has leaves. Even farther from the snowbank, members of that species have stalks rising above the leavs. Plants still farther away have buds forming on their stalk. Far from the snowbank, this species is in full flower." (page 60-61) Click here to view and study this picture in greater detail.
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This picture is from the side to accentuate the process of emergence
from the newly-exposed ground and the rapid rising of Corn Lily stalks
into the air.
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