So, in an on-again, off-again gentle rain, I was sitting on a mossy hummock on the forest floor, poking through the duff, looking for beasties and mushrooms, following spiders and peering into lichen "gardens". Looked up, stretching, resting my eyes and my back, saw the forest around me.
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Salal, moss, and evergreen trunks. And a huckleberry growing on a stump. |
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Up-ended roots of a fallen evergreen. |
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Dead hemlock, growing lichens, still carrying seed cones. |
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Moss on a small fallen tree. |
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Dead leaf on top of a stump. |
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And the wood of an old, dried-out stump. |
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Log end, bracket fungi, and wet salal leaves. |
Yes, there were beasties. And mushrooms and lichen ... Next.
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Llovía. Una lluvia tenue, intermitente. Estaba sentada en el musgo en el suelo del bosque, examinando la hojarasca, buscando animalitos y hongos, sacando fotos de arañas y "jardines" de líquenes. Descansando, estirando para aliviar los ojos y la espalda, alcé la vista y vi el bosque alrededor.
- El sotobosque. Salal (Gualtheria shallon), los troncos de árboles, y un tocón viejo con su arbusto de "huckleberry" (Vaccinium parvifolium).
- Las raices de un árbol recién caído.
- Un árbol muerto, Tsuga heterophylla, ahora sirviendo de sostén de líquenes, pero todavía deteniendo sus conos de semilla.
- Musgos en un tronco caído.
- Una hoja muerta encima de un tocón podrido.
- Detalle de madera seca.
- El extremo de un tronco cortado, con sus hongos políporos, y hojas mojadas de salal.
Sí, encontré los animalitos, los hongos y muchos líquenes. Los dejo para mañana.
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