The moss in the Oregon rainforest is magical.
I discovered it during my first spring here when it rained 29 days straight.
It grows on almost anything and the varieties are astonishing.
On my fence, I find elfin gardens and green seascapes.
The alders are adorned with brittle beards growing on air and rain.
The stumps of long-dead forest giants sprout with tufts of feathery growth.
Spring is coming. So is the Moss!
Myths of the Mirror 
Beautiful photos. Nature is one of my favorite artists.
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Me too. She’s amazing. I’m stunned every day by the beauty around me. I love nature photos, but they rarely can capture the true wonder of being there. 😀
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Such a wonderful treat to know you because everything, including moss, becomes more magical when seen through your eyes.
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What a lovely comment, Bernadette. This years moss is really different, just a green skin. I’ll have to take a photo of the trees that look like giant green hairy spiders. Ha ha.
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Oh these are just so magical. Such beautiful photographs. I have never seen anything like these before. Thank you for sharing them in Senior Salon.
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You’re welcome. That was a particularly rainy spring. We’re just starting the mossy season here. Hopefully, I can find more miniature worlds. Thanks for stopping by!
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Gorgeous photos – and I especially enjoyed each of your comments. I had a similar “fairy garden” feeling see all the Spanish Moss in Charleston, South Carolina. Magical.
But 29 straight days of rain? Where are you keeping your arc?
xx,
mgh
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Thanks for visiting, Madelyn. Yes, I’m getting a bit sick of the rain about now. We’ll start having little sunbreaks in April. The rain will completely stop by July 4th and then will start up again in October. Mossy Weather!
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WHERE is this? We get a lot of rain in Cincinnati, but not nearly *that* much!
xx, mgh
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The Oregon Coastal Range rainforest. We get lots and lots of rain. ☔️
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Well that’s the understatement of the decade. Beautiful results, but sheesh!
xx,
mgh
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They are damn beautiful
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Thanks for taking a peek. Our moss and lichens are the upside of all the rain. 🙂 Happy Spring.
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These are beautiful! It almost seems like another planet.
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Doesn’t it? Some remind me of the tropics, under water. I really like the micro world. Mother Nature is amazing. 🙂
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Quite right! She’s always ready to show us something new if we have eyes to see.
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OMG how beautiful! It’s absolutely enchanting!
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Isn’t it unusual? I love Mother Nature’s amazing beauty. She’s everywhere. Thanks for taking a peek 🙂
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Wow gorgeous!
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Thanks, Lynn. I think Mother Nature is beautiful wherever we are. Now, if only spring would hurry up!
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Haha we are supposed to have snow for 4 more days this week haha
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Usually we’re mowing our lawn by now. This has been a long winter.
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yes a really long one! we are usually out working too and my tulips are coming up!!
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I love the moss and your photos, Diana. No wonder you write fantasy novels. 🙂
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Thanks, Sebnem. I do love Mother Nature and most of my books are set in her midst. Thanks for taking a peek at my mossy photos. I’m looking forward to end of the rain though. 🙂
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Beautiful photos, you captured the freshness of the moss incredibly! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for taking a peek into my rainy mossy world. Now, if it would just stop snowing!! Have a great week.
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Everyone loved this beautiful moss and lichen feast of “earthly” heaven!
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Isn’t it unusual? Moss the upside of all the rain, Robin. Right now it’s all covered in snow. I’ll have to see what Mother Nature dishes up this spring. Have a great week, my friend. 🙂
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These are stunning photos (such good quality)!
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My camera is ancient, so thank you. It has a few setting that I don’t even know how to work. Lol. Thanks for the visit and have a great week. 🙂
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Have you edited those photos in any way? Tell me that it’s not natural, cause if it is MAN do you live in a wonderland. What absolutely stunningly beautiful plants. I recall some plant photos from your garden once before. You’re so lucky ❤
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My camera is about 12 years old and it does sometimes seem to do funny things with the colors, but these are unedited. I caught a bit of sun, which brightened them up. I do love the lushness of the rainforest, but Sacha, it rains 8 months out of the year. I have to scrape the slime and moss off my house every summer. 🙂
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I love forests too. Mannnnn I am going to have to come visit your neck of the woods if it’s that stunning. The photos almost reminded me of like microscope shots of bacteria – like brightly coloured ones. STUNNNNNNNNING
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Just come in the summer for the sunshine 🙂
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Oh my – you do have pretty, magical moss!!
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It is really beautiful, Joanne. I’m going to have to go moss hunting soon. It just needs to warm up a touch more. Hope you’re having a relaxing Sunday. Thanks for the visit! ❤
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No chiggars in the moss there? The Charleston natives warn everyone not to touch the moss – and tell stories of campers who filled their pillow cases with the stuff and woke up covered in bites. And MAN do they itch, because they supposedly burrow. Whatever, painting them with clear nailpolish stops the itching – even steriod cream doesn’t work.
xx,
mgh
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Goodness. I don’t think we have chiggars. Yikes. I can’t imagine filling my pillow case with moss anyway. Nailpolish? That’s a good trick. 🙂 We have lots of nettles and the way to get rid of the sting is to rub crushed fern frond on the area. It works amazingly well!
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Good to know – although I’m not such an outdoor girl that I’d be likely to run into a nettle.
Remember, the pillowcase stuffers were campers – so I guess it just looked soft and cushy when they did it. Or else it was an urban legend they use down south to keep strangers from touching the moss. My bites were on my ankles – so apparently chiggers don’t stay in the moss dripping beautifully from the trees in any case.
xx,
mgh
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These are stunning. ❤ You could easily use these at a setting for a fantasy… Just saying. Beautiful photography, BTW.
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I mention moss in one of my books, but it really is background. This post was a break from words. I’m sick of words! Ha ha. Not really, but sort of. Happy Sunday!
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Well, I’m glad you got a break and, bonus, you treated your readers to a gorgeous (almost) word-free post. (New series?)
P.S. Which book is the moss in?
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Myths of the Mirror. But only mentioned in passing. “The forest’s emerald skin.” “Hanging like the brittle beards of old men.” Little more than that. 😀
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Just beautiful, Diana. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thanks, Suzanne. I’ve become a moss lover. The woods out here is full of magical things to discover. Have a great Sunday 🙂
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oh wow, beautiful. x
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Thanks, Adele! Glad you enjoyed my photos. Moss is the upside of all our rain. I have to admit that I’m ready for drier weather, though. Happy Writing!
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You too Diana, xx
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Wow… amazing pictures!
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Thanks for taking a peek, Julie. Isn’t it cool. It makes up for all the rain! I hope spring is coming your way. Happy Sunday. 🙂
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I love moss! We get a lot of it over here, but its usually 50 shades of green! 😂 Yours is the most beautiful variety of soft shades, though… it’s really beautiful. I never knew it came in other colours!
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Another Irish blogger mentioned the same… Irish Green! Some of these are lichens, to be honest, but I lump them all together. The variety is astonishing. The upside to all this rain 🙂 Have a great weekend!
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Thank you for this beautiful ode to life, Diana 🙂
Your photographs are amazing, I enjoyed variety of the mosses and lichens most of which are unfamiliar to me. Such a gorgeous fairy forest.
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I was wondering if anyone would notice that some of these are lichens and not mosses. 🙂 There are so many varieties here, Inese, and I make new discoveries every year. Thanks so much for the compliment on my photography. My camera is OLD and is still hanging in there! 😀
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It is not the camera, it is the photographer behind the camera 🙂 What said that, I don’t remember 🙂
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