Day 208: Pay attention in class, kids

One of my first days in Sweden, my department graciously led my fellow students and I on a walking tour of Lund. On that tour, the professor stopped and elaborated upon this little fern.

I already thought it was cute and charmingly contrast-y, a bold little patch of green sticking out of that thick, looming gray structure [Lund's Lutheran Cathedral, Domkyrka]. He told us its precious name, *___something in swedish___*=*___maybe translates as 'wall fern?'___*. He also told us it is very unique, in that it grows only three places in the world. On two Swedish islands....and there...on that old, old cathedral.  All of this could be a lie. I could have confabulated everything. You see I was a little absentminded [I prefer 'sightseeing-ly stimulated] during the tour, but as I walked by the 'fern' I accepted that it was special, with or without the facts of that specialness.  (...and aren't we all?)