I live on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada. The climate is a 'temperate rainforest' climate meaning it's fairly mild, it doesn't get too hot or too cold and it has two seasons: rainy/winter and dry/summer with blurry bits between the two that are called spring and autumn/fall. It's not the stereotypical climate that is often associated with Canada (thank god).
The winters are moist to put in mildly, although this last one was quite dry, relatively speaking. All the moisture and lack of sunlight, though somewhat depressing for the psyche at times, makes for a very lush winter environment that I find very cosy. One of my favourite forms of plantlife that flourishes in winter is moss (although this winter was not a mossy as most).
So, before all the moss shrivels up, a walk down a street in my neighbourhood, appropriately called:
Yes, that's moss on the sign. Moss gets everywhere on Moss Street. On stone walls and on wooden fences...
On roofs, on bits of housing foundation and along lanes...
This might look like a 'golf green' neatly trimmed area of grass...
But no, if you look closer, it's moss...
It's on the trees...
And up the trees...
And there is a park just off Moss Street, called Moss Rock. And guess what? Surprise! It's a big rock that's covered in moss...
Finally, (I know, I can go on and on, can't I) a bit of mossy trivia... sphagnum, also known as peat moss, is comprised mainly of decaying moss and is used during the making of single malt whisky (maybe other types too, I don't know... ?). After the barley is malted (soaked in water til it germinates and does something chemically), the grains are dried using smoke. Sphagnum, or peat, is often added to the fire to give the drying malted barley grains, and the resulting whisky, an earthy flavour. So, three cheers for moss!
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