Arcyria Celebrates Pride

Day 254: Deep in our Pacific Northwest forests, our sight is overwhelmed by greens and browns. Subtle colour are subsumed, lost in the confusion of verdant hues and shadows. The environment here is painted with a broad brush, one shade blending into another as it translates from the eye to the brain. Unless an object is vivid or obviously out of place, it does not register as distinct from the palette even at close range. The camera is not so easily fooled, and although while I was kneeling beside this bit of rotten wood, I would have described it as a generic "brown," the wide-open lens registered a pastel rainbow surrounding the slime mold which was the focus of my attention: Arcyria obvelata celebrating Pride Month with its own microcosmic parade.