Hello, it's me, Lily, a frog, back after a long and marvelous winter's hibernation rested

and ready for season 2 of Tales from the Lily Pad Stories, Folktales, Fairy Tales, and

bedtime storytelling for kids and family.

And now, vice, back after season 2 of Tales from the Lily Pad Stories, Folktales, Fairy Tales,

and now, vice, special listener request, I bring you a brand new Tales from the Lily Pad

original story by Marlene Wuerfel.

Deep in the boreal forest, the mosa corn wakes in a bed of crunchy white-lichen and soft

green moss.

He stretches his long mousse legs, he eons, and up he stands in the shining dawn.

It is springtime, and the forest is just waking up after a long winter's sleep.

The mosa corn takes a deep breath.

He smells cranberries, evergreen trees, and spring mushrooms just beginning to push up from

the forest floor.

That's what the boreal forest smells like, and every time anyone anywhere in the world

takes a breath, they breathe in air that's been cycled through those same boreal forest

trees.

That mordecai, the mosa corn, walks among.

Good morning, trees.

He says, first thing every morning, he says, hello to all the trees in the boreal forest,

which is millions and millions of trees.

The trees answer, in their own way.

Good morning, Blue Sky, good morning, magic, good morning, morning.

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