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I meant to do a blog on this topic a little while ago, but I didn't get around to it, so I'll do it today! I wanted to showcase some of the interesting mushrooms I have found growing here around our new home. Fall is mushroom season here, and there have been some really pretty ones. I've missed a few, but there were still plenty to photograph this week, so here's a little tour of Claire's Mushrooms.
This yellow one is really vivid. There are several clumps of it around.
It has a spongy underside, rather than the typical "gills" that you see on many mushrooms. I think that might mean that it's a bolete species, but I'm not sure.
I do have a mushroom field guide, but at the moment, I haven't got time to look all these up in an effort to identify them.
This is a wood fungus growing on a birch. There are quite a few of this style of fungus around. This one is on a tree that fell a while ago and is slowly decomposing.
These ones are on live birch trees.
Here's a new mushroom just emerging - I love its bright orange colour.
There are a lot of brown mushrooms of one sort or another. Some are small and kind of trumpet-like.
Or umbrella-like!
Others are large (I put a sunflower seed on this one to indicate size).
I'm quite sure some are edible, but I don't want to take chances until I properly identify them. Most of the boletes are edible, so that might be a good target group.
This is an interesting fungal species - some kind of orange jelly-type growth on a stump.
This is my favourite mushroom from the ones that I found on my mushroom walk-about. It has a vivid red cap with bright white gills underneath.
Week's Favourite
I managed to photograph a new warbler this week, so that's my favourite for the week. This is a Nashville warbler. Thank goodness it doesn't sing country music! Haha!
Work
There's a lot of work still to be done here in our new home. Even though we moved in back in June, we're both busy, and this week has been especially busy for me with work projects. Since I work for myself, I have to take the work when it comes, and that can be a bit of a feast-or-famine situation. So, the work of unpacking and organizing (some things which have been packed for over 5 years since I moved back from Iowa), has been on hold this week. This is a picture of one of my bookshelves, which is currently in a state of ongoing organization (the left side still needs a lot of attention!). It's a lot of work to go through all my many books and organize and arrange them. This shelf is all non-fiction: cookbooks, gardening books, craft and hobby books, art books, animal care books, etc. My field guides are on a separate smaller bookshelf right next to my desk, since I use them a lot.
Anyway, the work continues! It's not exactly a pretty picture, but I didn't have a lot of time today so that's going to have to do!
There's a lot of work still to be done here in our new home. Even though we moved in back in June, we're both busy, and this week has been especially busy for me with work projects. Since I work for myself, I have to take the work when it comes, and that can be a bit of a feast-or-famine situation. So, the work of unpacking and organizing (some things which have been packed for over 5 years since I moved back from Iowa), has been on hold this week. This is a picture of one of my bookshelves, which is currently in a state of ongoing organization (the left side still needs a lot of attention!). It's a lot of work to go through all my many books and organize and arrange them. This shelf is all non-fiction: cookbooks, gardening books, craft and hobby books, art books, animal care books, etc. My field guides are on a separate smaller bookshelf right next to my desk, since I use them a lot.
Anyway, the work continues! It's not exactly a pretty picture, but I didn't have a lot of time today so that's going to have to do!
