although no personal flooding in our home. Oak Creek, at the bottom of our ravine, was overflowing and dark brown.The damp earth produces a fairy forest of toadstools in our mulched beds. There are several hundred on this cool damp morning. By 9 a.m. they are all shriveled.
Beautiful, aren't they? I made a feeble attempt at indentification but gave up. If anyone knows what these are, please let me know. I am not planning on eating them, just curious.
Those are tiny fungi in the center of the photo, about 1/4 the size of a pencil eraser.
Even better than the fungus: I saw a pileated woodpecker today outside our porch windows! I first heard it's call and raced to the window just in time to see this prehistoric-looking beauty scuttling on the trunk of a maple tree. My camera wasn't too far away but I didn't want to risk precious time viewing the bird. I had a feeling the pileated woodpeckers lived in this woods but we had not seen one until now.
3 comments:
Thanks for the interesting photos. (Not sure what they are myself.)
Those are beautiful! We've also had a ton of rain, but the toadstools it produced here were of the gigantic, rather unappealing variety.
Love your tiny ones - ours have mostly been of the larger persuasion. Check my blog - I gave you a Blue Ribbon!
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