ocr: BEHIND THE SCENES Their Life in Lichens Sndleuest ms Sylvia NOT THAT Stephen and Sharnoff are obsessed with lichens. But the California husband-and-wite photographic team (below), producers of our lichens story, are well into their third decade of photographing and gathering some 5,000 specimens. Sponsored by the Missouri Botanical Garden, they are working with lichenologist Irwin Brodo of the Canadian Museum of Nature to compile Lichens of North America, a On the Road Again "TT's SURPRISING how ill- prepared some folks are for driving in the desert." says freelance writer Mark Miller, who nee ...