Walk With Father Nature: lichen

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Friday, December 26, 2025

Patient Pioneers

Along the boulder's

curving roundness,

circular splotches of lichen

cling tightly to the hardness.

Existing and persisting

for possibly a hundred years.

Weathering the rocks,

penetrating the pores.

Patient pioneers;

crustose creating

colonies of color.

Photo Locations:

1. Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor, Maine

2. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

3. Grand Mesa, Colorado

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Lichens

the texture and the

topography of lichens

color rocks and trees

Photo Locations:

1. Dinosaur National Monument - Colorado

2. Home Woods - Cannonsburg, Michigan

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Probing

Through my side vision,
at the edge of my glasses,
I thought it was a tiny spider
walking between the drops
spattered and scattered
on the window of my library.

But turning my vision east,
to the edge of the woods;
it was a Downy Woodpecker,
hungry again,
now that the heavy rain
has let up.

He is probing
with his sharp, black beak
between the fissures of wet bark
and among flakes of moist lichen
growing on a solid Red Oak.

I'm watching this Downy
while spotting the red spots
on his black-and-whiteness.

He's focusing on his foraging;
and now there's a pair there.

Photo Location: Home Woods - Cannonsburg, Michigan

Friday, January 24, 2014

A large portion of my work deals with the intricacies of nature; particularly the unique, often overlooked details of wildflowers and common plants of the forests and fields, wetlands and meadows. You have read many short lessons in Botany here at WWFN. You have witnessed my observations turned into poems.

The "Poetry of Plants" is a collection of some of my poems, selected for this theme.

Click on the link below each photo to see the nominations, and to read them in their entirety. Then return to this list for more. Or, you could read one a day, for five days.

For recent viewers, these may be new to you. For loyal followers, it's a look back.

I hope you enjoy the selections I've chosen for this short anthology called:

"Poetry of Plants"

grandifolia

October 18, 2012