Sunlit Green and Growing Things

Mostly my photos of moss and stuff

[classicalcanvas]

Giant Mountains Landscape with Rising Fog (1820) by Caspar David Friedrich

[lichenaday]

Me: Why do I have so much neck and back and knee pain?

Also me:

Lichenology is neither for the faint of heart nor the weak of joint.

[lichenaday]

@munida

#sorry to take away from the rightful love of lichens but damn i wanna know the geology of this place it looks wild

These are from a couple different places--1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 are all Iceland. 2, 3, 7, 9, and 12 are all southern Germany/German Alps. 6 and 13 are the Italian Dolomites. 8 (aka The Hole) is Malta, and is a human-dug, prehistoric granary. So yeah, lots of good geology!

[herpsandbirds]

Trillium, wood sorrel, and millipede at Redwoods National Park in Northern California. 

Photographs by Paxon Kale cc 

[lichenaday]

love your blog!!

i took some pictures last fall look how pretty they are :D chilling on a log with some moss and fungi

Oooo such pretty Cladonias, just squeezing their way in there. Just like "is anyone gonna grow here? Oops too late I am."

[fuckingshutup]

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[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

[wild-e-eep]

Big volume #FencepostOfTheWeek

[theenbyroiderer]

Chronological retrospective of my embroidery "back catalogue". Incomplete but fairly comprehensive. Just because I'm trying to get back into embroidery and thought it might be motivating to see the progression.

[viralfrog]

[pangeasoftware]

[melbagirl]

Saw some interesting stuff on my hike today.

[justmossythings]

Don't think this car has been driven for a while

[morganathewitch]

Moss and clover, Skottvång Sweden.

[mmw8054]

[lichenaday]

Cladonia imperialis

I hate Ernst Haeckel with the deepest loathing, he was a terrible human being. He is famous for this and other historical lichen illustrations:

And you may recognize C. imperialis from the left-most figure. When I first saw this drawing, I noticed that he has taken some artistic liberties with some of the species I recognized. And I had wondered for years looking at his illustration how much creative liberty he took when drawing that guy on the left, since I hadn't ever seen it. But credit where credit is due, it looks pretty darn similar to the pictures and preserved specimens pictured here. SO terrible person, descent artist, I can give him that. Still hate him, though. This fruticose lichen has verticillate (arranged in whorls) podetia with spreading to recurved scyphi (cup- or goblet-shaped projections on the podetial stalks) proliferating from the center of lower scyphi in 8-17 tiers, up to 31 cm tall (likely the tallest terrestrial lichen in the world!). It is green-brown to brown in color with a darker, melanotic base and smooth surface. C. imperialis is native to the mountains of southern Brazil, and grows taller in higher-elevations regions.

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[publicdomainreview]

Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cyanotypes-of-british-algae-by-anna-atkins-1843 #OTD

[wolveswolves]

Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) by Will Burrard-Lucas

[herpsandbirds]

Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes), male, family Agamidae, Kerala, India

photograph by Aparnas Wildlife Clicks