Dare to be different

Hi Bags Have you been liberated from the snow?

Liberated from Cubs at least . Will say more about my weekend when my brain starts working again.

Brilliant Butty

Love those pictures, Butty

They are great! How about that as idea for a GN competition. When the snow goes and we can all find some vegetation to use.
We could make it Easter bonnets. Full of ideas me!

Butty I was taken with the woven twigs too, but also rather liked the seaweed.

Nelliemoser Easter is next weekend and the weather forecasters are full of doom and gloom about the temperature, wind and more snow. Not much incentive to go out into the garden or countryside and pick a hat.

About which i am very pleased!

God! I would be scared to meet some of 'em!

I fancied the cape made of mosses.

Butty

I did laugh at this for a good reason, the photos reminded me of my dear grandmother.

My grandmother was a lovely soul and she cherished her pigs and chickens. One day she found a fox had got at them and was so upset. She decided that she would try and catch the fox 'by lying in wait'.

We laughed, she left the house at night with her coat and a floppy hat covered in straw and she looked like hay stook. She did this for three nights and gave up. The very next night the fox did for 9 more chickens. That's why foxes are are called crafty.

Pogs.

Lovely photos, not depressing humour at all.
Bit concerned about the moss woman though - been ripping up a rare habitat by the looks of things.

And can I join that u3a group please?

Moss isn't rare where I live, jess. Depends where she is whether it matters. Some moss releases itself from its place of growth.

Besides which, she can put it back. We did this when we had our dry stone dyke rebuilt. We asked the wall builders to save the mosses and other plants and put them back on the wall. They did. Everything is thriving and we have a new-built wall that looks old.

I also live in an area where moss thrives and have had no problems transplanting it around the sandstone boulders in my garden.

Looked like they were photographing somewhere like The Burren, Bags. Little patches of vegetation (they are not just mosses, you can see, a whole load of stuff, some flowering I think), each one a mini ecosystem in an island of bare limestone. Such ecosystems might be common in Scotland but the Burren is certainly considered to be a treasured, rare and delicate habitat in Ireland. They appeared to have peeled off a big patch - it might settle back down, it might not.
(Gosh we are both in full arguing mode today aren't we bags - but we agree about the siskins, on twitter )

A bit of info. on the photos:

Inspired by the romantics’ belief that folklore is the clearest reflection of the soul of a people, Eyes as Big as Plates started out as a play on characters and protagonists from Norwegian folklore. During a one month residency at the KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film in the South West of Norway, the Norwegian photographer Karoline Hjorth and I collaborated with sailors, farmers, professors, artisans, psychologists, teachers, parachuters and senior citizens.

Thanks, butty. Western Norway, south of Stavanger. Very similar climate to west Scotland then. I rest my case. Mosses and all their little relatives THRIVE. If you saw my house and garden, jess, you'd be convinced. Anywhere there's a bit of damp (which is everywhere) mosses and their relatives thrive.

Rain on roof tiles >>> moss, etc

Rain on stone walls >>>> moss, etc

Rain on paths >>>> moss etc.

It is not a fragile ecosystem (unless someone turns the rain off – #fatchance)

Have a careful look at the photo bags - moss does not begin to cover it. My botanical eye can identify the flower thrift/sea pink for instance.
I think, judging by the names at the top, this is Scandinavian - and maybe this kind of habitat is common in the far north.

I said "moss etc". The whole mat can be put down again and will be fine. I've done this, for goodness' sake! I know what I'm talking about.

And I'm not such a worrier.

Stavanger is not the far north. But that kind of vegetation is probably common throughout Norway, as it is throughout the wild parts of Scotland, and my garden.

Not to mention the Canadian tundra and the Russian, and the US.