lichen, The Last of Us + (some) musings
Babes and bots, Howdy! Anyone seen The Last of Us recently? I recommend stealing someone's HBO account info to watch it ASAP because let me tell you, this shit is wild. But let me come back to that... lichen So my partner and I went to Rocky Mountain National Park this weekend and looked at some stuff. Rocks, trees, fungus, frozen water, the like. We did a sexy 3.2 mi hike to Bridal Veil Falls and then turned around and walked back. I recommend spikes. So anyways, here we were on the top of the falls (because we just couldn't stop at the base) drinking bad beer and eating our lunch when we notice lichen, So much lichen. Lichen everywhere! And all different colors, too. Lichen is a composite species (i.e. it combines two other thingies to make one new thingie). Take fungi and algae and throw them together, boom lichen. Fungus makes the structure, and algae provide nutrition. The fungus offers a shelter for the algae to live outside of water. Some lichen looks like the t...