Cemeteries often provide a good track to a beach. So we pondered why are cemeteries, so often, on the coast in the Hebrides. The wonderful resource that is the internet, tells us that there are three reasons:
1. It's easier to dig in sandy soils compared to the solid rock or water-laden peat of the interior, and it has good drainage.
2. People settled on the coast used the sea as a means of transport.
3.There were no inland roads.
But I digress...The wall at the cemetery at Ardmichael was indeed splendid - dripping with lichens, mainly Ramalina - probably - siliquosa and Xanthoria parientina and Xanthoria aureola. So a few more photos...
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| A patient hound! |
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| Fabulous fruiting bodies on the Ramalina. |
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| Just love the textures! |
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| Xanthoria parientina is also known as the Common Sunburst Lichen (among other similar names) - very descriptive and apt. |
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| Then I looked at this photo and wonder if it's Xanthoria aureola.....AI says that it is, it certainly looks a bit more foliose than the normal Xanthoria and it is more orange in colour. Its common name is Seaside Sunburst Lichen - nice! |
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