We’ve just come through a light smattering of snow over the last week, then gone into a couple of days when temperatures ranged from the teens Fahrenheit through the 40s F, with sun during days. And tomorrow, Thursday, through weekend, we are expecting a mess. So I decided to photograph our Polytrichum after and before, along with soil temperature measurements. There’s also some Atrichum in shots, especially under lingering snow, and a couple of other pleurocarps.

Even if I had a better experimental setup, it’s not clear what it would tell with this weather mess, typical for New England at this time of year, certainly southern New England. Not sure what knowing temperatures of moss leaves would say. I have apparatus which can do that, but not under snow, for it needs line-of-sight.

These were almost all taken with an OM System M.Zuiko 90mm macro and non-macro 1:3.5 digital lens. Some in the outing were taken with an Olympus 12-50mm 1:3.5-6.3 zoom EZ “ED” “MSC” lens having a Tiffen 52mm neutral density 1.2 filter.