Fungi feast

©2019 Barry Smith - Micro blue-green fungi-like lichen amidst moss, pine needles and other matter

F and I went for a drive to Lairg today - a beautiful drive through bog-lands, hills/mountains, burns and lochs. The day started with sunlight and the promise of a glorious day in the highlands.

On our way home we home we set out to find a sculpture called The Unknown by Kenny Hunter that stands in the landscape of Borgie Glen. But by mid afternoon the day had gone to custard - wind, rain, grey and cold. So not the afternoon for a 1.5 hour walk to a sculpture through a wet forest. However we decided to check out signs and a totem pole so that we would be well informed when we returned for the walk. Imagine our delight to find a glade of fungi when we did a short walk into part of the forest to a picnic table. Such a variation in colours and sizes; but the prize had to go to the very wee blue-green fungi-like lichen - so small that you could hardly see them as you walk by.

A few of the images of this gorgeous microclimate follow.

©2019 Barry Smith

©2019 Barry Smith

©2019 Barry Smith

©2019 Barry Smith

©2019 Barry Smith - Green moss

©2019 Barry Smith - Almost glass like

©2019 Barry Smith - A field of red topped fungi

©2019 Barry Smith - Delicate flutes of this brown fungus

©2019 Barry Smith - Two is company

©2019 Barry Smith - Red moss

©2019 Barry Smith - A micro forest of blue-greenies (lichen that is)

©2019 Barry Smith - Their own little eco-system

©2019 Barry Smith - A fragile strong web of branch-like lichen

Obviously somebody had been enjoying many of the fungi as the photo of one below shows.

©2019 Barry Smith

We look forward to revising the glade soon when we go to check on the sculpture.