This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.
It could be anything:
a smile…a rainbow…a flower…a kind act…a tasty treat
This time of year the wood look soft with the moss and ferns providing a touch of bright green on a drippy gray day. Moss’s texture catches and reflects light, in almost the same way that glitter does. It appears brighter than anything should almost sunlit at times, even though the sun was AWOL.
The closer one looks at moss the more fascinated one becomes…at least if the one is I. I can imagine a “Horton hears a who” story taking place on these tiny worlds tucked into the nooks of my dwarf apple trees.
The moss on my apple trees was catching the low angle of November’s light when I got home from walking the dogs this morning.
It seems appropriate for Sunshine’s Macro Monday!
One of the fascinating things about texture is how it interacts with light. Locally, in winter the mosses and barks take center stage, due to the low angle of the sunlight and lack of dramatic competition. In the other seasons they are just a backdrop for the brighter foliage and flowers.
I especially like how the mosses seem to magnify light. They often seem like they are emitting it instead of catching and reflecting, sort of like the full moon.
For De Monte y Mar’s Tuesday of Texture: the texture of the lichens and moss on tree branches in winter.
I remain enamored with moss. It is everywhere right now. The trees don’t have leaves yet and on a grey day the occasional ray of sunlight hits the moss causing it to glow as if lit from within. This gallery for Tuesdays of Texture is a sample of the mosses I’ve seen this week, in the city and in the woods.
A late winter texture for Tuesdays of Texture: moss
Every so often something totally ordinary strikes a chord. Today while driving through the woods I was struck by the way the moss on the alder trees seemed illuminated. The scene was ordinary and yet spectacular. I couldn’t find a place to stop and I got home so late that I had to use a flash to get a clear picture.
There are many shades of green in the moss as well so I am linking this to the Color Your World Challenge: green as well.
May you find joy and beauty in the ordinary.
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