John, my choice of words wasn't random. I do know that ferns are an ancient plant form, but mostly your photos evoked being in a redwood forest. Talk about primal. Although ferns in their earliest forms actually predate sequoia by a couple of hundred million years (but who's counting) the trees themselves have two- to three-thousand year lifespans (if humans would stop cutting them down). And I've never been in a redwood forest where there weren't ferns, hence the mental connection.
If I lived in a misty moisty climate, I'd grow ferns 💚
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
~John Muir
