September 23, 2006

• Fall Colors

  Coming back from the outhouse this morning, I noticed a plump cluster of Coprinus under the cat ramp.

  

  After I’d gone in and gotten my camera and captured the Coprinus, I noticed Faust watching me from a nearby tree.

  

  It was only raining lightly, so I decided to walkabout and see if I
  could see more shrooms.  In particular, I hoped to find some
  photogenic Russulae.  Faust decided to go with me.

  

  
  I found no mushrooms at first, but saw lots of berries. 
  These are one of my favorites, lingonberries, known to sourdoughs as
  lowbush cranberries as opposed to currants, which are highbush
  cranberries.

  

  No rosehips on this rosebush, and very few at all in the woods around here this year.

  

  

  Faust stayed with me, even when I ventured through the trees to the edge of the muskeg.

  

  

  …and around the corner into the cul de sac.

  

  Since it wasn’t raining hard enough to discourage the mosquitoes, I soon turned back toward home.

  

  

  I followed Faust off the road and into the woods,

  

  …where we found this Boletus in a patch of lichen,

  

  …and a scattering of LBMs (little brown mushrooms, very plentiful everywhere) amid the moss.

  

  I also found two specimens of a small glaucous-capped fungus with flat
  translucent stalks.  I’ve never seen this type before.

  

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