Looking closer

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It’s snowing. And the temperature’s dropping. This is actually what they forecast(!), and yesterday I decided to get some photos of some of the colors and textures that are off the road. (Not everything is really gray and brown, as I have posted previously.)

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If you have followed this blog for a while, then you’ve read about mosses and lichens (and mushrooms) before. I use iNaturalist.org to try to identify them, but sometimes a long-fallen log or stump is home to so many things that I just can’t do more than to admire nature’s diversity.

Rough Speckled Shield Lichen Punctelia rudecta

Delicate Fern Moss Thuidium delicatulum

Rough Speckled Shield Lichen Punctelia rudecta

And other times, I am simply intrigued by tree bark and the way trees grow…

There are Christmas ferns, evergreen trees, this river cane, spotted wintergreen and my favorite putty root orchid to add green, too. Yesterday I identified the only American Holly I’ve seen on my rambles!

The most surprising sight yesterday was to see these Chickasaw Plum(?) blossoms!

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But as for today, it started snowing harder after I began this post, and I was happy to see the deer show up. (The turkeys have been hanging around all day.)