Lichen Lesson
While I was backing up to take a picture of the Corkscrew Tree, I noticed this patch of lichen with what I assumed to be spores decorating the ends of its branches. I did a bit of quick research on lichen and found out that they are indeed spores, but I also learned a lot more about lichen that is very interesting. Lichen is a combination of fungus and algae growing together and adapting into something completely different. To give you some scale to this photo, the red spores are about 1/8″ or so.