365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Peltigera Paradise
Day 92: I'm sure a few of my readers have been wondering if I'd lost interest in lichens, but no, the reason I haven't posted any photographs of them is that they were rather under par in 2013. Our rainfall for the year was within the average range, but perhaps the few dry spells we had stretched on a bit too long. Even after the autumn rains had begun, they still looked dry and withered. But you can't keep a good lichen down, as this specimen of Peltigera leucophlebia (Ruffled Freckled Pelt) attests.
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