Today is lovely and sunny but when it was wet this blossom tree showed up quite spectacularly with its coating of lichen. Hawke's Bay is usually so dry that it always amazes me how many trees have lichen coated branches.
The Heron Migrates is the story of how a Japanese anagama kiln came to New Zealand. From Estelle and Bruce Martin's diaries from their trips to Japan and the building and firing of the Kamaka anagama. Soft cover with 400 photographs and drawings. 160 pages.
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The new Castle book has a whole section on lichens. I can remember looking at lichens under a microscope at Auckland Uni. Very unusual life forms.
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