I have always loved seeing lichen on stone walls and in churchyards but until I read Katherine Swift’s The Morville Year I had no idea how fascinating it really is:
A lichen consists of not one but two organisms living in symbiosis: a fungus, capable of withstanding extremes of temperature and drought but unable to photosynthesis, and an alga, which [...]
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The Biology of a Lichen
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2013
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What a Difference a Day Makes
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 22nd 2013
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The Life of Phi
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31 Comments CherryPie on Jan 8th 2013
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
25 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2013
This week’s prompt was “Leaving one year behind and going into the next“.
The last few years have always presented difficulties for me even though I have always cast out the old year with it’s problems and tried to bring in more positive outcomes for the incoming New Year.
This year for some reason I felt quite [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2013
