I came across this strange, convoluted fungus a few weeks ago. Fortunately it was far enough off the trail to have avoided being destroyed.
I don’t have much to say about this fungus. I don’t know what kind it is. It is not, however, the strangest fungus that I’ve seen. That was one that I saw in North Carolina many years ago that looked kind of like a starfish. If I ever get the time I should see if I can dig up those pictures. (But I won’t get the time.)
Last week saw the deaths of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, and Hulk Hogan. I was not particularly a fan of any of those people, but I can’t deny the huge presence that they had in popular culture for all of us who grew up in the Eighties.
I couldn’t help thinking that the next blow to my Eighties childhood would be that Chuck E. Cheese himself would die.
And maybe I was a little bit prescient.
Chuck E. Cheese didn’t die.
But he was arrested for credit card fraud.
From March . . .
. . . we have an American Coot, which looks kind of sinister up close . . .
. . . an American Robin on the rocks . . .
. . . and, after the American Coot and the America Robin, one might be expecting an American Crow, but this is actually a Fish Crow, as indicated by its distinctive “ah-ah” call.
I have long thought that whoever came up with those bags of peeled, cut baby carrots was a genius—he basically turned carrots into potato chips.
Most of the carrots look pretty much the same, but recently I found one that looks like something from the Burgess Shale. (That’s probably because of the weird strands at one end that resemble antennae, or mouthparts, or something.)
Here is another picture of a Red-shouldered Hawk, a species which I attempted to photograph a few years ago.
