Also on the Arenal Volcano

Magnifying moss

Plots

 

Bright beech

I’m not quite knowledgeable about working with light in photography as I hope to be someday, but my intent here was to capture the brightness of this beech relative to the leaf-less trees surrounding it. 

My Pine

Micro-community ecology

A top a 50 ft pillar of shale, an old pine sits, surrounded by a flourishing community of lichens and mosses.  As I photographed the stalked, bowl-like lichens, I noticed the dazzling complexity of the community at the base of the tree.

Cliff hanger

   

What is this crazy, cliff hanging angiosperm?

The Osage Orange

does not deter spiders but may repel mosquitoes.

Seed dispersal

  It’s now the season when clothing is covered in seeds after a short walk through the woods.  How has gene flow been influenced by the invention of sweatshirts in plants that disperse seeds by attachment to mammalian fur?

A fruit