Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Cladonia pyxidata

The first day of my 365 project, back in 2013, was truly full of wonderous scenes to capture. I kept finding lovely subjects but on that day, I really wanted to find a mushroom to begin my project. However, just in case I didn't find one, I took pictures of everything that dazzled me along the way. This adorable Pixie lichen is very common on our property, where it grows in groups on logs, stumps and thick branches on trees. I will also find it adhered to boulders where it nestles among moss and other species of lichen. Barely rising above the snow which surrounded it, I was delighted to find that its cup contained not one droplet, but two, and one of them was still frozen. So special! :)

One day while looking around on our ridge line for cool things to photograph, I found a group of Pixie Lichen. Imagine my surprise when I saw that there was a pair of lichen growing out of the cup of a larger one beneath!! AMAZING!! :D