Vandalism
Have you ever seen the blue-green on a log out in the forest? I’m not sure what it is when I see it now, but I know what it isn’t. We first saw this phenomenon thirty years ago while hiking on a highly traveled trail in the Linville Gorge.
“Vandalism way out here?” we assumed someone had spray-painted the log because it resembled something obscene.
Wrong. We saw it again next time we were out hiking and again and again later. We knew no vandal was this industrious. What else have we thought was something when really it was not? Who else have we blamed for nothing?