This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
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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