A Moveable Garden

A meme I’m trying out: A list of thirteen things, any topic, any style.

13 mosses — well, 11 mosses and 2 likely impostors — from one walk in the woods today. I don’t know many mosses other than haircap moss (Polytrichum commune), so I’m giving them descriptive epithets.

#1 fluffy, furry moss, context + close

#2 expanse of mosses

#3 mixed mosses: bipinnate-shaped moss and haircap moss, context + close

#4 moss with sporophytes

#5 a sort of helical geometric nanobristle liverwort called whipwort, Bazzania trilobata, context + close

#6 thinly applied cypress-needle-cluster moss on a log, context + close 

#7 kale chips lichen

#8 an island of moss in a sea of pine needles, with moss shore

#9 cascading nubby moss on stump

#10 mixed mosses: another batch of bipinnate-shaped moss and haircap moss, context + close

#11 light green disheveled moss, context + close

#12 moss with flying insect

#13 contrasting mosses

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“I believe they could comfort the world
with their ministries. That is my hope,
even though this world be a jagged rock,
even though this rock be an icy berg of blue
or a mirage of summer misunderstood
(moss balm for misunderstanding),
even though this world be blind and awry
and adrift, scattering souls like spores
through the deep of a starlit sea.”
— from “The Moss Method,” Pattiann Rogers