L'Ecume des Jours

"…and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - they won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river." (Virginia Woolf in a letter to Vita Sackville-West)

[vangoghcore]

by backwoodpriestess

[moonlightkingdom]

[mournfulroses]

Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield

[jean-doe]

[seabeck]

Foggy meadow path

[cozybonfires]

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[birdcagewalk]

[seabeck]

Yellow wildflowers

[maureen2musings]

The pink house of Loch Glass, Scottish Highlands

mywildscotland

[goblin-witch]

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[pnwander]

[yanushkaa]

[thegoodvybe]

[thelittlesupernova]

Smell the rain 🌧

[mpoooooo6]

UGHH

[postmortem-thoughts-deactivated]

𖹭\ I love dark weather

[lichenaday]

Pulchrocladia ferdinandii

Lacy coral lichen, Biblically-accurate-angel lichen (I made this one up)

Almost forgot that this is the whole point. This fruticose lichen is endemic to southern Australia, where it grows on dry, sandy or acidic soils. It grows in large cushions (15 cm tall, 75 cm wide) of rigid, perforate pseudopodetia. It is whitish-cream to yellowish in color, and isn't known to produce apothecia, but produces globose pycnidia on the irregularly-branching, tips of the pseudopodetia. The official description of this lichen refers to it as "horny," which I am choosing to believe refers to the horn-like structure of the thallus, not to its desire to jump some bones. But if I am mistaken, go off, queen, you can get it. P. ferdinandii looks similar to sister-species P. retipora, but is overall larger, and prefers dryer habitats than the latter. And before you ask no, we don't know why it looks like this, so let's just appreciate that it does and that we are blessed to be able to see it.

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