February 4, 2025

Lichen, Independence, MO

I liken it to lichen…

One of the things I liked about this image was that if you look down upon it, you can imagine it is an aerial photo of a river or chasm with rocky cliffs around the top. Yet it is just fragile lichen clinging to the side of a tree.

I really don’t know much about lichen so I looked it up and it said, “a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga”.

Hmmm…fungi and algae can live in mutually beneficial partnership…perhaps a model for us to consider.