Threading My Way through Pinecraft Park 4
January 1, 2017
I wonder if that blue-green color on the grass and dead leaf on the left is another lichen or paint.
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January 1, 2017
I wonder if that blue-green color on the grass and dead leaf on the left is another lichen or paint.
I love it, but you know I’d love this…the grasses and feather play so well together. I wonder what makes that odd green color on the leaf blade?
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January 1, 2017 at 11:44 AM
Thanks, Lynn. I sure wish I knew where that odd green comes from. I even tried making it yellower in Lightroom, thinking it just didn’t register correctly in the camera. It wouldn’t budge. I suppose that doesn’t mean it registered correctly, though. Still, I’m voting for some kind of lichen. I almost passed up this feather; then I saw how its shape played with the grass.
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January 1, 2017 at 1:08 PM
Maybe it’s cyanobacteria! (Blue-green algae.) I found that color on a tree stump today . . .
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January 1, 2017 at 4:51 PM
That reminds me, there’s a lichen that grows on wood which is that color, too. Oh, check this out! It’s not a lichen, it’s a fungus.
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jul2008.html
It’s more temperate than tropical, apparently, but maybe….???
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January 5, 2017 at 11:03 AM
I was all set to agree with you. That’s certainly the color. But botanist husband Davide says no because it’s a wood-rotting fungus and wouldn’t know what to do with grass or old leaves. Shoot. At least he agreed that it is “another organism.”
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January 5, 2017 at 12:00 PM
I’m Delighted to know about your blog and to be a follower of yours, Linda. These photos are Beautiful!
Happy New Year to you,
Marjorie
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January 1, 2017 at 3:45 PM
Thanks, Marjorie. I’m glad you like them. Lots more to come. Thank you for following.
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January 1, 2017 at 3:49 PM