Spent most of my time looking at, growing, weighing, dissecting, caressing, keying, watering, fertilizing, pressing and reading/writing about chenopods.
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| Atriplex sp. fruiting bracts. This is probably A. rosea, though the bracts are longer and rounder than any other A. rosea I have run into recently. |
However, I got in some wonderful camping in the mountains with friends (and the new old truck!).
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| Camping with the new old truck! |
Where we found a few mushrooms. Some edible.
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| We ate chantarelles for awhile (3 meals a day for basically weeks). |
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| Found one lion's mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus). |
And some not:
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| Scaly chantarelle, Gomphus flocossus |
I even took a trip home, where I learned how to differentiate the plumages of adult and 2nd winter Ring-billed Gulls (among all sorts of wonderfulness of being in New England in November and seeing family and friends).
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| 2nd winter Ring-billed Gull. Note the uniformly dark primaries without white spotting. Also the blueish legs and bill. |
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| 2nd winter, in front, with two adults, behind. |
I'm about to depart on all sorts of adventures (Bahamas! Jordan and Israel!), I'll update this again at some
point.
