With the snow melting, i climbed into the hills to frozen waterfalls and onto open ridges for the view.    Along the way, I stopped to take photos of anything that interested me.

By the frozen waterfall the cliffs rose above where I was standing.   About 2 metres up was a ledge with some sparse grasses growing on the gravelly surface.    Hanging down were roots, following the seep.   They were crusted with mineral salts.

On a large rock was a patterned boulder lichen (possibly porpidia crustulata).

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Some orangish polypores (Gloeophyllum sepiarium) were multiplying on fallen trees.

Twisted grained rootstocks with some wolf lichen were spotted on a hillside.

In rocky areas, mosses grew on or between boulders.   Star mosses filled in the spots among cushion mosses.

Cladonia could be spotted on north-facing slopes

On open ridges a few shaped trees stood into the wind.

Soon we will see the emergence of herb growth and a few early wildflowers.    Spring is close.