Chris Nelson

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Socially awkward penguin, rollin' hard in the land of fediverse chicks and reply guys.
@TimKStanton yes they do!
@alexhaist community is difficult at best. I'm square in the middle of hillbilly hell.
Ugh, what a long day. At least there are #Tacos

A pair of fledgling Red-tailed Hawks were screaming for their parents to bring breakfast this morning at Tibbetts Brook Park (Yonkers, NY).

#birds

I walked past this pommel & thought, "No way. Trying to draw that will melt my brain."

But then thought I ought to photograph it for future me.

If past & future me ever meet up it'll be pistols at dawn as this shocking disregard for each other has been going on for decades 😅🤣

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#DasDetail #KleineKunstKlasse

Today we visited a waterfall that was worth the hike. Latourell Falls in the Columbia River gorge, Oregon, US.
#LatourellFalls #ColumbiaRiverGorge

Brugmansia (Angel's Trumpet)

#BloomScrolling #flowers

Saw these cuties in the Tillamook state forest, Oregon.
#MushroomMonday
I love the Pacific Northwest. So much green!
#MonochromeMonday
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@mike_malaska @Still_Nimmy

I'll try to get some macro shots in the next few days and let you know.
By the way, here's another shot, more from a distance... also very interesting, I think.
Area: Canadian shield

@Hagukh @Still_Nimmy OK. These pix helped. Can tell what is NOT the reason.

Can see some little tiny lines running down some of those rocks. Little dissolution runnels. They are cutting across the layering/foliation. They can trap water make little microhabitats. But...the lichen is totally ignoring those structures. So it is not based on surface water from microkarren.

@Hagukh @Still_Nimmy As a guess, you need fine-grained rocks to hold microkarren structures. So maybe this is an inclusion of limestone, dolomite, chert?, flint?.

Am thinking the mineral structure in that fine grained rock is so tight the lichen just can't break into it.