{"id":13314,"date":"2026-04-07T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:32:01","slug":"snow-and-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/04\/snow-and-moss\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow and moss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m on study leave this week. A friend of Carol&#8217;s offered to let stay in her house in Maine, which is good for my studying, since there are fewer things here to distract me. And when I need a break from studying (to stretch my legs and rest my brain), I can go outside and look at the amazing diversity of mosses and liverworts around here. Mosses and liverworts can be surprisingly beautiful, as in the photo below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_2532.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a view through the microscope of the peristome on a capsule of Dicranum species \u2014 the peristome is a structure that holds the spores in the capsule until they are ready to be released. I find the colors and shapes quite beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an added bonus, it snowed for several hours. Although it was cold enough to snow, it was too warm for any accumulation of snow to build up; we had the beauty of snow without the mess. And it was quite something to watch large flakes of snow fall on tiny moss plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Snow falling on a rocky hillside covered with moss.\" class=\"wp-image-13316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9076.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on study leave this week. A friend of Carol&#8217;s offered to let stay in her house in Maine, which is good for my studying, since there are fewer things here to distract me. And when I need a break from studying (to stretch my legs and rest my brain), I can go outside and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2026\/04\/snow-and-moss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snow and moss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[1080,58],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","tag-bryophytes","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13317,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/13317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}