Lichen on branch.
Most of this week has been drab, dark and very wet! However, the sunshine when it happens is very intense, and illuminated the fronds of this lichen. I love the rich purple colour of the bare birch trees behind.
I stood in the (ankle deep squelch) bog to take this – there’s dedication for you!
“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.”
– Rumi
“When one tugs at a
single thing in nature,
he finds it attached
to the rest of the world.”
– John Muir, Scottish-born American naturalist.