Caught by lichen

An important win for Kalyn and the team last night. The team they played won their previous match in 3 straight sets and last night, the win was reversed, 25-19, 25-20 and 25-15.  Kalyn played well and she was really pumped to win in three straight and did her part for sure in making that happen despite not feeling well. The team's on a five match winning streak. Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon's game. 
There seems to be a few names for this kind of lichen, and the ones I'm familiar with are Old Man's Beard, Witch's Hair and Coyote Hair. There's an Indigenous story about the Coyote Hair name but I can't remember it at the moment. Just googled and found these two stories:
"In an Okanagan story Coyote tries to catch some swans, but they fool him by playing dead. Not realizing that the swans are just faking, Coyote ties them to his son and crawls up a pine tree to get a pitch top for kindling. The swans then flew away with his son, and in Coyote's haste to get down to save him his long hair got caught in the tree. The swans drop Coyote's son to his death, and Coyote has to cut off his hair to get free. Coyote then transformed his hair into the lichen, and pronounces that his valuable hair should not be wasted, rather it should be gathered by the people, and the old women should make it into food.
"There is also a similar Secwepemc story. In this account, Coyote is marvelling at how easy Spider can go up and down his web. Coyote is so impressed that he tries to copy Spider. Coyote climbs up a tree, and then tries to use his fur as a web to slide down. Of course it doesn't work, and Coyote gets stuck. Luckily, Spider comes along and frees Coyote. Some of Coyote's fur is left on the tree, and Spider proclaims that when the people come to live on the land, the fur will be this lichen, and the people will gather it for food."  (From the Wikipedia website)
The usual Friday routine: breakfast at the Tree House (undercooked eggs over easy so I got a bit of a discount), recycling, fuel in the car, and grocery shopping.