Lichen View

Lichen Meeting

Fall has done its thing, and the trees are bare, minus the pin oaks, red oaks and beech where the leaves hang in there.  I’ve  often wondered why, as if there might be an advantage to this for the trees.  Probably not.  In a field of browns, its now a great time to find some very attractive micro-landscapes.  Little ecosystems unto themselves, lichens, mosses and fruiting structures of one or the other mingling, or meeting.  I’m am not sure if the orange dots in the upper left are (lower image) a future jelly fungus, or if this is a sporing stage of a lichen, or maybe of a different fungus that likes beneath the bark.  But I loved these images.  The eye of the beholder.  NG.