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Hall of Mosses
January 5, 2009 |
When everything’s covered in two feet of snow and your butt is freezing, it’s time for some green therapy.
Mosses
These pics are from one of our favourite places - Olympic National Park on the Pacific Coast in Washington state.
The Hoh rain forest is one of the largest temperate rain forests in the world. It abounds in old trees - mainly Big-leaf maples and Sitka spruces. It rains and rains and rains here and rains some more.
These pics were taken on the Hall of Mosses trail two years ago.
It’s a funky place - borderline spooky - like the set of Lord of the Rings.
Ferns
The knobs on these Sitka spruce trees are tumours. Damage to the tip or bud of the spruce causes the growth cells to divide more rapidly that normal to form a swelling or burl. They do not affect the overall tree growth or health.
Mosses, ferns and conifer seedlings cover every surface …
including the rootballs of these fallen trees.
Many Big-leaf maples here are covered in mosses and lichens that weigh almost four times the tree’s foliage. The trees here have short roots because of the abundant rainfall and dense forest cover. The mosses help them retain moisture.
You gotta be on the move … ‘cos if you stand still for a couple of hours,
you’ll get a moss hat.
Back to the real world where there are bills to be paid …
and there’s snow to be shoveled …
- bee and jai
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Olympic National forest has been on our itinerary for “quite” some time… need to make that 3-hr trip from here soon. I don’t know if this is a good time of the year though…
Looks beautiful! That fern pic is just lovely.
I watched these pictures with my mouth open… wow what an enchanting place, amazing! Those deer … lovely! Just amazing!
I really did escape until that last picture. The phone booth one looks familiar..it’s been posted before right.
Gorgeous green pics…sigh..back to the real world.
We have been there and I know how beautiful the place is. Lovely pictures.
Oh, to live in this forest.
What a great spooky escape ! I am freezing seeing ur last pict…
Lovely!
straight out of a movie set :-)lovely pics.
Happy new year (don’t know if I wished you before :-))
I do commiserate with you about the weather, so I guess I’m glad to be living where its lovely weather-wise and there’s so much green and blue water.
hi, very m(e)ossy, and spooky. Love the deer picture:-) So much snow can be shoveled? Happy New Year:-)
Those pictures look like they are from another world, another age - achingly beautiful. I hope we get to visit the park some day. Stay warm.
Mamatha
Whoa! That is amazing!! The mosses seem to have infected everything, it’s scary and lovely at the same time. I really, really want to go there now! Thanks for sharing
Thanks the therapy worked,every around here is gray and gloomy:)
Since you brought up winter weather it is cool and gray here today but miraculously finally raining. We are over 18 inches behind for the year and all our plants are showing signs of water deprivation.
The theme of “it rains here and then it rains some MORE” was a lot easier to appreciate now it is wet again here, even if only for the day.
Thanks for sharing your experience in the moss.
This looks like a magical place! Nice to see some green when its rainy out the window
Happy new year guys!
Great photo-post.
Spookyyyy. even before I read I was thinking lord of the rings. But beautiful & creepy. I love the deer, the hat & the snow (besides shovelling)
I love these photos Bee! Not so spooky to me, but surreal! The phone booth is hilarious
B & J, amazing greenery! It transported me to my 7th std science where I had to collect specimen of moss n fern (moss I scraped frm exterior of my bldg, fern frm my neighbour’s collection of small plants in balcony!) All pictures are mersmerising!
Gorgeous pics, although I don’t want to live there or visit right now! Moss hat looks great.
It’s warm here, last week we had 2 freezing days. My upgraded butt warming car seats were atlast useful for just those 2 days! Hahaha!
It was 80F in Orlando while everybody is freezing to death.So unfair!!
Thanks for posting those fabulous pics, I truly needed to see all that green. Today is snowy and windy and all I see through my window is a curtain of white. This post reminded me that there is life under all that snow!
One of these pics reminded me of “The Faraway Tree” by Enid Blyton, a childhood fav book of mine….
Gorgeous pics and definitely a sight to see in the bleak of winter!
simply awesome pics ! great to see these green bryophytes !
and that phone booth, it’s too funny..
and the last pic makes me shiver , so cold and frosty ..
I would love to go there someday in real , but thanks to both of you for taking me on this virtual trip..
hugs and smiles
Natures gifts at its best! Loved the telephone booth and its cap!
Stunning photos - the trees remind me of the Ents!