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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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2013
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The Descent
I have to confess I am not a very good passenger whilst travelling down this road, due to the sheer drop. It is two way traffic but only room for one car on the road.
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 9th 2013
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow.
Jerry Spinelli (B 1941)
14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 3rd 2013
The Tao that can be spoken is not the
…..true Tao.
Any name which can be given to it
…..is not its true name.
That which was before Heaven and
…..Earth is Tao.
Tao is the mother of all things.
The wise seek its mystery,
…..and find it made of opposites.
Opposites arise from the same source
…..and are identical in all but name.
The mystery [...]
28 Comments CherryPie on Jan 27th 2013
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
All things are full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Plotinus (205 – 270)
13 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2013
This photo follows on from last weeks 52 Photos Challenge photo.
More ‘Wide Open Spaces’ can be found in the gallery.
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2013
