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:

  1. Anonymous4:17 PM

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

    ST

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  2. SEB4:25 PM

    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 :-)

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  3. Phil10:06 PM

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

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  4. Zhoen4:50 PM

    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

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  5. jo(e)7:57 PM

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

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