On a wet day in early June Andrew and I headed out, southeast of town, following the Clackamas River. As we drove I became enthralled with the trees covered in hanging lichen. The images I saw were a PNW version of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) found in warmer climates.
I wanted to take home armfuls and drape it around my garden.
As I photographed the moss and lichen the sun came out.
This growth looked like a miniature staghorn fern.
Walking on I discovered this contraption. Wanna go for a ride?
Just a couple of slats for your bum and a place to rest your feet...
And off! Across the river you go...
Sadly the ride was labeled with private property, no trespassing signs and locked up... so I can't tell you about how much fun it was...
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You will laugh when I tell you that I just had to buy a 'bunch' of fresh Spanish moss when I had an hour in a local nursery. What was I thinking? I needed to have it. Whether or not is is used doesn't matter. I needed it.
ReplyDeleteLaugh? Nope, I totally get it and I'm right there with you.
DeleteLichen is one of those magic tricks that rain does in areas that have a lot of it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what this area looks like now? Once the rain stops for the season these things dry up pretty quickly.
DeleteVery cool moss, lichen and is that a liverwort? Amazing how it all grows so luxuriantly.
ReplyDeleteThat river ferry looks like it would be a fun ride. But definitely better/safer being locked up!
I was really bummed...I wanted to ride across the river.
DeleteI would be perfectly happy in a garden with nothing but mosses, lichens, fungi and ferns. Thanks, I loved this!
ReplyDeleteI love them too...but I would miss my agaves!
DeleteQuite amazing sights for a dry climate person!
ReplyDeleteI bet!
DeleteI love to see this kind of damp woodland. The best places are where ferns can grow epiphytically, but that's confined only to the very wettest areas in the UK or the steepest wooded valleys and clefts. What's the staghorn thingy, a selaginella maybe?
ReplyDeleteMaybe? Unfortunately I have no idea.
DeleteI grew up a couple of blocks from the Clackamas River...it's my happy place, so thanks for this.
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