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Lovely lichen!
I’m going to throw off gloomy thoughts about the weather! I’m going to celebrate with lichen! Out for a walk yesterday, the sun made it look like gold and silver where it grew on stones and trees! It hung like gilded chains!It glowed like amber! In all shapes and patterns!
MoreLichen autumn
The grey stone has a huge white lichen on it, bordered by green moss; the stone is lying on top of broken beechnut shells
MoreLichen Yorkshire!
On a wall near WhitbyAbbey On another wall by Whitby Abbey Splendid licheny thing!
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These two lichens were not defeated by mere paint!Maybe this is a fungus not a lichen…
MoreLichen this gargoyle!
There is something fascinating and endearing about gargoyles… I think there have been many children’s stories about them, although now I’m writing this none come to mind. The word itself is from French and originally Latin, and is connected to the words gargle, gurgle and gullet in English. From when people first started using mortar […]
MoreGorse, of course!
Driving across the flat Somerset landscape, heading towards the pointed hill called Crook’s Peak, and the rolling shoulder of the Mendip Hills called Wavering Down. thought I glimpsed a mass of lichen on the hillside. … but it’s gorse, of course!
MoreLichen spring sunshine
There is nothing quite so lovely as sunshine on lichen… well, maybe there is, but it seems that belatedly spring is on its way so I think it’s lovely!
MoreGoblin, lichenroo and weir-lichen
I can see a goblin crouching here… Squint, and maybe you’ll see a lichenroo or a weir-lichen!
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Lois Elsden 