December 2015 was mild and wet in Stoke Newington, London, and many mosses, liverworts and lichens flourished. I used my macro lens to capture some of them.
I have a special fondness for mosses. When I was 6 my mother moved to London. We lived at 32 Queensborogh Terrace, Bayswater, in a converted townhouse. I slept in a little unheated room at the rear of the first floor past the kitchen that used to be the pantry or cold storage. It was cold and damp there. It had a little rain gutter outside a small window that was filled with moss of various types. I loved my little garden. I imagined fairies using the sporophyte’s stalk (seta) and the light in the red capsule (operculum).
They are complex little organisms. It takes about a quarter to half a year for the sporophyte to mature from the gamophyte. The sporophyte is made up of a long stalk, called a seta, and capped by a cap called the operculum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss).
Sherry Felix - port4u 
When I lived in the Pacific Northwest and people were taken aback by my embracing of the wet weather and damp landscape, I would just tell them “I come from a line of the moss people.”
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these are so lovely!
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As a child, I too, made fairy gardens with the mosses and lichen under the bushes in the Australian bush.
And if I sat very still, little birds would visit my fairy gardens at my feet.
Love the Blue Lichen.
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That is charming. When I was in Wales as a girl the forest had a moss carpet with fungi called fairy rings. You know what those were for 🙂
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