Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Colour on the breakwater

A grey, gravelly beach, a large gravel and mud parking lot, a few straggling, brown plantings along a walkway, and a long, high pile of bare rock down the middle and reaching out into the ocean. Grey, brown, black. And there, in this barren wasteland, bright green and red mosses and off-white, greenish lichens thrive.

Three mosses, one rock. The white-haired moss is a rock moss.

More rock moss, with a few red soredia.

Bullseye lichen on conglomerate

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En el borde del mar, piedritas grises; arriba hay un estacionamiento amplio, de lodo y grava, unas pocas plantas medio muertas al lado de un caminito. Y en medio, un montón largo de piedras grandes, limpios, que dividen la playa del estacionamiento y se extienden al agua para encerrar la marina. Gris, negro, color café.

Y en esa tierra baldía, crecen abundantes musgos y líquenes, verdes, blancos y colorados.

El musgo con pelitos blancos se llama musgo de piedra; los otros, no los pude identificar. El liquen es "Ojo de Toro", o sea, el blanco, el objectivo. Forma parches más o menos circulares en las rocas.

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