walking to sainsburys in the rain i noticed the lichen patches on the tarmac pavement - randomly scattered, looking like something trodden in - but i have noticed them before and realised what they were, this time it was how different they look in the rain which caught my attention - they look even more like random patches of trodden in grunk!
the patches seem to increase in density nearest the grass allongside the tarmac - must take some photos when dryer
on the way home i found some lichen which has fallen from a tree onto the path - a rare find and i don't like to harvest it since it takes so long to grow
so fragile - i love the way the branches become filigree and the white crustiness on the other surface (not shown)
two days later passing a small oak, similar in size to the one in our own garden - i was thinking about how successfully it had been pruned and how large the remaining leaves were - noticed a falen leaf on the edge of the drive, with lovely water drops
Beautiful images. My gardener brought me a bag of small fragments of lichen last year, and I followed some instructions I found online to try to get colour from them, but no success, so they were probably the wrong sorts.
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