mary, I wish I could see them, too. Your description really is lovely. Anything like this: please click?
The first thing my kids did when they started school after we moved to New England, was walk over, on a field trip, to the school principal's cranberry bog. We'd only been in the east for a couple of weeks and here were these three little Wyoming kids who've never seen so much green and damp, walking on spongy earth, raving about the beautiful red "berries." They were thrilled!