more lichen
found on a very very rainy day
food for the reindeer (if we had any)
February 7, 2015 in Nature, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
by Marja-Leena Marja-Leena Rathje
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by Marja-Leena by Marja-Leena
found on a very very rainy day
food for the reindeer (if we had any)
February 7, 2015 in Nature, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
That is a very fine example of lichen. The level of exquisiteness doesn’t seem to diminish no matter how small the sample becomes. The sense of form underlying form is very pronounced. One wonders, therefore, how atomic and subatomic forms would look if we could see them accurately.
Tom, yes! I love these plant forms, all different. My youngest daughter found it on her way here for a visit and gave it to me, knowing my love for these. This is quite tiny, a little bigger than a fat cherry, so it is marvellous to use the scanner to see it in greater detail.
This is lovely. Lichen is irresistibly delightful, isn’t it! There was so much covering the otherwise bare trees on a holiday in Scotland a couple of years ago. I was so entranced by it all that I brought a piece home and it remains attractive on the window sill.
I am constantly drawn to the beauties of intricate elegance in the tiny organisms around us. Once again I agree with Tom.
Olga, so we have a shared love of lichens. They are abundant in our wet west coast climate and take so many different forms, some quite flat on rocks, and others almost like hanging moss on trees.
Wow! I’m awed by the image of lightning that springs into my mind’s eye when I look at this.
Wow, you have an amazing mind’s eye, dear R!
To me it looks like a forest with a path going through. One of the most interesting discoveries in past decades was the realization that nature creates in fractals.
Susan, I see a path and forest now that you mention it. I’ve heard of fractals in nature – but in all of nature, I wonder? If lichen is an example, then that is most amazing.
Examples are everywhere in nature – lichens too.
Here are some nice ones.
Amazing, isn’t it?
Thanks for the fantastic link, Susan! I did not realize, or had forgotten, that the branching effect is also fractal. That video at the end made me a bit seasick and I had to stop viewing it halfway through…wow.
Would your neighbors mind if you got a reindeer? I’d say they might be lichen it, but that would be such a groaner of a pun! Oops. Just said it, didn’t I?
Yup, you did a pun! I thought of it but didn’t dare. I bet all the kids in the neighbourhood would love to have one around Christmas. I don’t think the reindeer would be very happy here, far too wet and the lichen isn’t much on the ground here as it is in Lapland.