Monday, October 31, 2022

Back to normal: soggy

 So it's been raining off and on for a few days. Not heavy rain, just a steady dripping, but enough to wet down the fallen leaves and turn a few lawns green. I went to the museum to look for mushrooms, without much luck. There were a few, around stumps, but none of the usual ones that grow in the lawns. I'll try again in a few days. But I walked through their little wood, uphill and downhill. Again, there were no mushrooms, but the juncos were out in force, digging through the soggy leaves. And the air smells of autumn spice. Many of the big-leaf maple leaves have fallen, but the huckleberries and some of the alders still hold onto theirs; the woods are still green, with tan and yellow blobs.

Since there were no mushrooms, I took photos at random along the trails.

Big-leaf maple leaf, still on the tree.

Big-leaf maple leaf fallen into a hollow stump.

In the centre of the woods, a big rock waits, carelessly dropped by a glacier on its way down the hill.

Detail of roots clasping a nurse stump.

A tangled wood, with one junco who sat still for a moment.

Rock, moss, leaves.

A few more maple leaves.

I'll post the few mushrooms I did find around the lawn tomorrow.

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Por fin está lloviendo, desde hace unos pocos dias. No es mucha la lluvia, solo una salpicadura, una llovizna, pero fue suficiente como para mojar las hojas caídas y volver el color verde al césped. Fui al museo a buscar hongos en sus alrededores, sin mucha suerte. Encontré unos pocos en muñones viejos, pero ninguno de los que crecen normalmente en el césped. Trataré otra vez en unos cuantos dias. Pero subí a su bosquecito y seguí los senderos cuesta arriba, cuesta abajo. Tampoco hubo hongos allí, pero una bandada de juncos escarbaba entre las hojas, buscando comida. Y el aire olía a otoño. Muchas de las hojas del arce de hoja grande han caído, pero los huckleberry (arandano nativo) y los alisos todavía retienen sus hojas verdes.

Ya que no veía hongos, saqué fotos casi al azahar a lo largo del sendero.

Fotos: 
  1. Una hoja de arce, todavía colgada del árbol.
  2. Una hoja de arce caída dentro de un troncón hueco.
  3. En el centro del bosque, una roca grande, dejado caer descuidadamente por los glaciares en su prisa para llegar al mar.
  4. Detalle de raices que se agarran fuertemente al muñon enfermera.
  5. Bosque desordenado, con un junco que se detuvo por unos segundos.
  6. Roca, musgos, hojas.
  7. Y más hojas de arce.
Y mañana subiré las fotos de unos cuantos hongos.


1 comment:

  1. Lovely fall colors there. I do hope when you get to see the mushrooms on your next walk.

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