May 02, 2011

Bryophyta

First green

The snow has melted into big puddles, but the leaves haven’t yet burst forth on many of the trees here. When I walk in the woods, what I notice are the mosses, shining brilliantly from stumps, old logs, and mosses.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

We're way ahead of you in the south. It's summer here already.

ST

SEB said...

For some reason this post roused to memory a bit of doggerel from the Games Magazines of my youth:

A lithoid form, whose onward course
Is shaped by gravitational force,
Can scarce enjoy the consolation
Of bryophytic aggregation.

As a language-loving kid, I relished this one. I guess now I finally understand the "consolation" part :-)

Phil said...

It's their time (the moss, I mean).

Zhoen said...

I'm very fond of moss green. Have you been over to Kuriositas this week? Not a moss, but a perennial evergreen, but it sure looks like moss.

http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/04/yareta-alien-life-in-grasslands.html

jo(e) said...

Zhoen: I hadn't seen that -- what cool pictures.