I will never catch up. I have a stack of mushroom photos waiting, and a pile of bird pics, and then I went out shopping yesterday and ran across a bunch of tiny earth tongues by the sidewalk. And then this morning, the deer were back at my kitchen window; more photos waiting in the camera now. Where to start, where to start?
With a mushroom wearing a frilly tutu.
Short and broad, cream to tan. |
This next one is a metre or so away. One of the same species, but newer?
Just starting to fray around the edges. |
These grew under an old arbutus. On the far side of the tree, there were several clumps like this:
Well past their sell-by date. Same species? |
And there were a couple of young-uns. |
Are these all the same species? The only thing I find similar in my Guide is the Blackening Russula, which starts out white and ends up black. But their gills are brittle, not fraying, not hanging down the stem. So: two species, maybe three.
It doesn't really matter, does it? I'm not planning to eat them. I just love to watch them, and speculate.
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Nunca me voy a poner al corriente. Tengo un montón de fotos de hongos haciendo cola, y una docena de fotos de pájaros, fotos de montañas y de neblina, y ... Y ayer salí de compras y encontré un grupo de lenguitas negras de tierra al lado del camino. Y esta mañana, los venados llegaron a mi ventana de nuevo; las fotos están todavía en la cámara. ¿A dónde empezar?
Con un hongo que lleva un tutú.
- El hongo, con laminillas desbaratadas, y el sombrero ondulado. Crece debajo de un madroño, Arbutus menziesii.
- Otro parecido, entero. Tal vez la misma especie. Crece al lado del primero.
- Y al otro lado del árbol, se encuentran estos rodeados de tiras de corteza de madroño y de hojas secas de roble.
- Y estos, ya bien deshechos.
- Un chiquitito, negro.
Pero, al fin, no importa. No los pienso comer. Solamente me gusta celebrarlos, y hacer preguntas.
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