Wednesday, April 24, 2019

The upside of days of rain and mist

©2019 Barry Smith - Droplets on tiny lichen branches
Fiona and I have commented that we are now officially at a point that we would like the rain and drizzle to cease for a few days to let things dry out a bit. It has been raining, drizzling, misty and whiteouts for a week now - very little blue sky and very little evidence of the sun.

But the upside is that it has been a great time if you are a fungi or lichen or strange little ground plants. This blog simply shares a few images of those things that are capitalising on the current weather.

©2019 Barry Smith - Reaching up
©2019 Barry Smith - A tiny eco system - lichen, droplets and micro micro spider
©2019 Barry Smith - Beauty in decay
©2019 Barry Smith - Generations
©2019 Barry Smith - Group with droplets
©2019 Barry Smith - Weather worn trio
©2019 Barry Smith - Delicate fungi with micro bug
©2019 Barry Smith - Beautiful flutes
©2019 Barry Smith - And suddenly it springs forth
©2019 Barry Smith - White balls in the grass
©2019 Barry Smith - Tree stump companions
©2019 Barry Smith - As if a shallow dish holding water
©2019 Barry Smith - The most micro lichen and lichen flowers I have every photographed - Fiona had pointed the red dots out to me on one of our post 'sculptures' with rusty bits - turned out that the red dots are intact tiny tiny flowers on the lichen
©2019 Barry Smith - Droplets on a spider's web - bit hard to focus - the iPhone wanted to capture the gravel on the slope in background

©2019 Barry Smith - Droplets on spider's web with rust wall background -  hard to focus - the iPhone wanted to capture the background

And of course though we moan we do appreciate the life giving nature of the gentle rain.

4 comments:

  1. Wow! what brilliant photos Barry, have never seen lichen flowers before!

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  2. Barry, you have such a brilliant photographic eye. Love these posts!

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  3. Love this idea of taking a walk on the tiny side. the tiny flowers are amazing!

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  4. those micro-flowers on the lichen will lead me to a closer observation of rock and tree lichens in the future

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