Fantastical ferns

“Fernland” (oil painting), by Concord, N.H.-based artist Pamela R. Tarbell’s in her show “Marsh Kaleidoscope,” at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, in Boston’s Jamaica Plain and Roslindale sections, through Oct. 7

Coryphopteris simulata, synonym Thelypteris simulata, is a species of fern native to the Northeastern United States. It is known by two common names: bog-fern and Massachusetts fern.

Sign outside New Hampshire’s State Capitol Building

—Photo by Karmafist

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Making space for spring

Migration Reflection II (oil on canvas), by Pamela R. Tarbell, at the current “Fall Art Exhibit,’’ at Mill Brook Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Concord, N.H.

''Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.'

-- "Nothing Gold Can Stay'', by Robert Frost