A lichen is colonizing my step.
The autumn had been wet and by winter the concrete had decided it was time to show some life while everything else died down.
The garden is just hanging by a thread between snow falls and bone cracking hard frosts, but the lichen sensed that this was just the time to colonize and to spread out.
It might be the shape of a beating heart, or it might be just the shape of a lichen. The smallest satellites look like tentative kisses on a mirror .
The concrete has never looked more lovely or full of possibility under a snow filled sky.
It truly is the little things, or the lichen things:)
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Lichen are fascinating, and something that I know very little about. xx
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They are an astonishing symbiosis of algae and fungi that cover a huge range of the earth. I should also know a lot more about them! Xx
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I’ve never seen a lichen that color. Congratulations!
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They come in all shapes and colours. I’ve realized there is at least one cat hair on this one!
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