Recently, my family and I have noticed that the heavy spring storms have been bringing down and damaging countless trees. We go to Oak Woods Cemetery often to appreciate the nature there, and fallen branches and toppled headstones throughout the cemetery. But despite all the tree death, gray skies, and cool air in the grim cemetery, fungi persisted. They thrive on death, creating new soils from dead organisms and bare rock. They thrived in the cemetery, both literally creating life from death and symbolizing rebirth.
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| A small patch of unidentified Shield Lichens in a sea of moss |
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| Incredible leafy growths |
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| Showing sparse speckles on the surface |
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| Cryptic Rosette Lichen (Physciella sp.) on a headstone |
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| Cryptic Rosettes |
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| Shield Lichen |
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| Note the Candleflame Lichen growing in the shield lichen |
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| Candleflame lichens |
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| Candleflame lichen (yellowish) and Cryptic Rosettes (grayish green) |
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| Lichens growing sparsely |
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| Bark furrow full of moss |
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| Candleflame and Cryptic Rosettes |
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| Lichens on mycelium |
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| Xanthomendoza sp. |
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| Lichens on a cool piece of wood |
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| Candleflame (orange) |
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| Unidentified Rosette (blue-gray), Cryptic Rosette (gray-green), and an unidentified lichen (yellowish) |
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| Lichens on a headstone |
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