My favorite plant, is moss…..
Now, I know that sounds vague. But I live in the PNW (Oregon) and moss is everywhere. It is a comfort for me.
It’s green, soft, wet, vibrant, full of life. It smells like earth and water and air and its so fresh and revitalizing. It comes in so many forms, shapes, colors, textures. It can be used in so many ways.
When I am in a place that has no moss, or the dry brittle lichen, I get anxious. I don’t like not having it around. Like when I went to Nebraska and there were few trees and not a lot of moss or ferns. It was very scary for me.
I remember this one time I was out hiking and my Dad spotted some elk and wanted to go up on a ridge to get a better view. I sat at the bottom and waited. When he came back down he started acting weird and insisted we hike back to the car because I didn’t look good and he was worried I was getting heat stroke. On the way back we ran out of water and the sun was in the sky so that there was no real shade on the trail. So he was panicking looking down the embankment wondering if he could get to the creek to soak his bandana for me. We got to a shadey spot on the trail, still too far from the water, and he started looking for a path down. I glance over and see this boulder covered in thick green fluffy moss. I shout to my dad I have an idea and scooped up the moss and pressed it to my forehead. it was wet and cool and soft. It kept me cooled down so we could make it back to the car and now when I am overheating out in the woods I just press my head to some moss for a bit and I feel better. (now though I usually leave it on the rock or wherever it is)
I also love to nap in patches on it and feel it tickle the bottom of my feet.
Bottom line, moss is great and is one of my favorite plants.
(the photo was taken by me of some moss near a friends house, bonus little succulents growing with it!)
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