Today I have a place that figures into Death in a Dacron Sail, so no challenge to provide me with a picture!
Crystal Bog is located in Maine’s Aroostook County. It is a 1400 acre wetland and is one of 
the state’s best example of a domed bog ecosystem. It is also one of Main’s most diverse bogs and contains a large number of rare plants and animals.
A typical bog is formed from an accumulation of peat (dead plant material) and mosses, mainly sphagnum moss. Raised or domed bogs are discreet, raised, mound-shaped masses of peat occupying former lakes or shallow depressions in the landscape. Their principal supply of water and nutrients is from rainfall and the substrate is acid peat soil, which can be up to 12m deep. Raised bogs are characterized by low-growing, open vegetation dominated by mosses, sedges and heathers, all of which are adapted to waterlogged, acidic and exposed conditions. In the center there can be an expanse of water in the form of a shallow pond.
A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Some of them have been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War, the levels of preservation varying widely from perfectly preserved to mere skeletons.
A body is discovered in Crystal bog in Death in a Dacron Sail, and Crystal Bog is the wetland that Rhe, wearing shackles and weak from a concussion, has to slog through in the middle of winter, following an escape from her kidnapper.
Just reading of Rhes exploits makes me need to read this. Still in the TBR but getting there.
Glad to make your TBR list! Hope you enjoy it when you get to it!
I’m sure I will
Oooh there is something very creepy about bogs.
Yup, there’s bog bodies and I got one of them in the book, too!
Yay!!
That’s so cool how bogs preserve bodies for thousands of years. Makes for some interesting tales. I have to add Death in a Dacron Sail to my TBR list. Rhe is a great character, and I can just imagine her slogging around in a bog, shackled, in winter. What did she get herself into now?!
I had a friend who went up to Maine to help out cleaning up paths through some of the bogs, which gave me the idea for the book!
Amazingly interesting, Noelle. I have to get the second of your Rhe mysteries when life slows down a bit. Loved the first.
Well, hang on to your hat. The third is out in May. Hope life slows down – summer’s coming and surf’s up!
Interesting post on peat bogs, Noelle. Fits in perfectly with “Death in a Dacron Sail,” a Maine mystery that readers are sure to enjoy! 5-stars from me. 🙂
Thanks so much, Bette. The thought of bogs led to bog bodies – it’s amazing where your mind can lead you!
I’m not sure I would want to ever be in a bog, not am I sure I have seen a bog; I think you described one very well!
good luck with the rest of the challenge!
betty
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Thanks so much for stopping by! I introduced the bog so I’d have a great place for the escape scene and also there’s a bog body in the story!