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Fishnet Lichen - Ramalina menziesii

The treads were tangled, twisted among themselves as if someone’s long hair had become knotted while sleeping. The tangle reminded me of my daughter in elementary school, her hair halfway down her back, and her mother pulling and working the brush to untangle it each morning. The pain from each pull must have been intense, but she wanted long hair, and it was beautiful. The twisted fibers in front of me weren’t hair but Fishnet Lichen, a species of Ramalina. It hung almost to its top on most of the branches of this Douglas Fir.

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The treads were tangled, twisted among themselves as if someone’s long hair had become knotted while sleeping. The tangle reminded me of my daughter in elementary school, her hair halfway down her back, and her mother pulling and working the brush to untangle it each morning. The pain from each pull must have been intense, but she wanted long hair, and it was beautiful. The twisted fibers in front of me weren’t hair but Fishnet Lichen, a species of Ramalina. It hung almost to its top on most of the branches of this Douglas Fir.