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Many years ago there was a house here near the old tree. All that is left today is the cellar and one or two fence posts like this one. A family of foxes lives in the old cellar but it's been a while since I last spotted one of them.
The Leuchars Meadow Pipit posing on a leaning fencepost before dropping down to the field margin to hunt for food.
I was delighted and felt privileged to find these miniature lichen and moss gardens on the top of fenceposts in Glen Affric in the Highlands of Scotland. I knew vaguely that lichens need pure air to thrive and that led me to read more. They are much more complicated than I thought, and I have a LOT more to learn. But here are some lichen facts as a taster. . .
There are more than 1,700 species of lichen in Britain.
Lichens absorb water and minerals from rainwater and directly from the atmosphere, over their entire surface area. This makes them extremely sensitive to atmospheric pollution.
Before the advent of modern dyes they were extremely important sources of dyes for clothing.
Lichens produce a large number of acids, many of them found only in lichens. The litmus dye used so widely as an acid/alkaline indicator in chemistry comes from lichens. Some species also have antibiotic properties. Some of the lichen acids can be utilized in drugs which can be more effective than penicillin.
Another use of lichens from the past is as packing material for ancient Egyptian mummies.
Aren't lichens brilliant?!
Taken with an A. Schacht Ulm Travegar R 100mm f/3.3 Cooke triplet in M42 mount, at f/5.6, at Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Florida.
A Red-Tailed Hawk perches and watches and listens for dinner...I've been accumulating some images of hawks on perches and I kind of like them..thy're all beautiful in their own way....hope that you enjoy them!
A friend guided me through the valley below his home. It's now inaccessible except on foot. Through the overgrowth were fence lines and outbuildings, evidence that it had once, many years ago, been a working farm. It's now invisible to anyone viewing it from the ridge above.
Driving along I-90 in Washington, I happened to get this shot. For an out the window, 80 mph shot, I think it turned out nicely.
The mate of this hawk was not impressed with my proximity here and swooped down at me while taking this photo! I didn't realize until she flew, that she had prey in her talons!
For best viewing - try large on black
Crete Hall Road at Northfleet: at the site of a former power station, empty and derelict for years, now the site of a Lidl distribution centre.
A chain holding a gate closed, all rust and peeling paint.
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There's not much happening this spring . . . had to dig into the archives to get that spring feeling.
Here, my ever-faithful and (favorite) globe mallow adorns a trail post.
Bell Rock Pathway
Village of Oak Creek, AZ
(condensation within lens beginning!!!)
cloud forest near Mindo, Ecuador
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
Looking west into New Mexico, where the Cimarron Route crosses the Oklahoma-New Mexico border. The swale is directly underneath the moon.