We took a nice drive this afternoon on the Hiei Parkway in the mountains to the north-east of Kyoto, to see the foliage. We hoped that up in the mountains it would have progressed a bit more than it has so far in the city, but it turns out to still be pretty much at the beginning.
At one point we paused at a moss-covered clearing that was somewhat littered with chestnuts. At least I thought it was moss at the time, but looking at the picture makes me think that they were super tiny little ferns. Maybe that's what moss is?
There was also a set of steps and a path, leading to Lord knows where.....
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Nope, mosses are mosses and ferns are ferns! At least some of this is mosses, but some may be leafy liverworts. Plenty of ferns in the second photograph.
Those mysteriously inviting steps may become my new desktop - it’s a lovely, mesmerizing, enticing photograph — and my natural habitat!
“Leafy Liverwords?” I’ll stick with calling them “moss”
I went ahead and added desktop-background sizes (both standard and widescreen) for your downloading pleasure. —Jeffrey
Now that’s what I call service! Many thanks.
Jeff, he said “Liverworts”, “not Liverwords.” Oh, I see, yes, “wort” makes it sound sooo much less unappealing —Jeffy (”Wort” means “plant” and usually follows a descriptive word…”Lungwort”, “Spiderwort” etc. ) (Is that right, Peter?) I remember how all you kids hated liver of any kind and fooled me into thinking you ate what was served by dropping it into your milk when I wasn’t looking. I learned this many, many years later… Peter and I seem to like the same things. I too liked the shot of the steps…reminded me of those I built down b y the creek years ago.
Grandma Friedl’s absolutely right, of course.
‘Wort’ seems to imply a medicinal use, as in the “doctrine of signatures”, whereby a plant that was thought to resemble a diseased bodily organ was considered a cure for its ills - lungwort, liverwort (some sorts of liverwort are big flat things, not at all like mosses) and, presumably, spleenwort and stitchwort. Funny, we seem almost to have come back to the Moss Gardening book ;o)
I presume “you kids” didn’t drink your milk, either!
this is a powerful lens , but in the first pic ,it seems have a poor performs when the view is out of the focus ，may be beacause of the ISO 8oo.
big ISO cause CCD noise, especially when ISO is larger then 800.
To let the photo more like a Painting, i think you should turn down the ISO