Walking

By it, on it or next to it

Ground covers ar among natures greatest surprises. Since we tend to look straight ahead we miss what is underfoot or nearly so and we may unknowling destroy it. Or knowingly.

I was hiking down the Ship’s Horbor Nature Trail in Acadia National Park when this women all excited came running toward me yelling in delight. She had a beautiful patch of gree moss in her hands. I was too late in screaming “put it back.” Moss grows very slowy only under the right conditions and may easily be destroyed. We should know enough to leave everything in this gallery alone.

Ground Covers

Textures In Leaves
Kancamagus Highway, White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire
October 1992, JW 1307
1307
Earth, Fire and Water
Colorful leaves in a stream
0002 leaves water stones rocks red yellow blue abstract
Vintage Textures
Ledges Trail, Baxter State Park, Maine
October 1988, JW 0245
0245
Lichens & Teaberry Leaves
Acadia National Park, Maine
September 1990, JW 0397
0397
Lichens & Teaberry Leaves, Detail
Acadia National Park, Maine, September 1990, JW 0397
0397 D01
Roots And Pine Needles
Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts
April 1991, JW 0436
0436
Textures In Leaves
Kancamagus Highway, White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire
October 1992, JW 1307
0451
Wet Leaves And Pine Needles
Upton State Forest, Upton, Massachusetts
October 1977, JW 0495
0495
Leaf Puzzle
Stowe, Vermont
October 1979, JW 1110
1110
Reindeer Moss and Blueberry Leaves
Acadia National Park, Maine
September 1992, JW 1222
1222
Log In Textures
JW 1588
1588
Indian Textures
Near Kancamagus Highway, White Mountains, New Hampshire
October 1993, cat. JW 1635
1635 0. LANDSCAPES WEB 6. GROUND COVERS COLLECTION 45 062517 mosses lichens
Lichens and Pine Cone
Acadia National Park, Maine
September 1992, JW 5292
5292
Forest floor
Wachusett Reservoir, Boylston, Massachusetts
May 1994, JW 4148
4148
Reindeer Moss and Blueberry Leaves III
JW 4872
4872
Lichens, Stone & Pineneedles
cat. JW 5296
5296
Reindeer Moss and Blueberry Leaves II
Acadia National Park, Maine, JW 5324
5324
Lichens, Mosses and Oak Leaves
September 1992, cat. JW 5333
5333
Stones and Reindeer Moss
JW 7371
7371
JW 6214
6214
Moss
Near Thoreau's Cabin, Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts. June 1991
cat. JW 0831
0831
JW 1222
1222