A fine sunny day, with rain later.
I liked the sun shining through this Gorse flower.
I'm slowly piecing together the life-cycle of mosses. For a primitive plant they have a complex reproduction cycle. I'm trying to get a complete set of images of this Polytrichum formosum, and when I do, I'll put them all together on one page. In the meantime, these are shots of last year's sporophytes (the spore-bearing generation, which are 'parasitic on the parents', left) and stacked antheridia (reproductive growths of the male parent), showing that the shoots are indeterminate: they continue new growth on old growth, (right).
The pale area in the centre of this image is a carpet of Cladonia portentosa -a 'reindeer lichen'.