More Nature Post! I love mushrooms!
This will be probably the last nature post I do from Photobucket. Since I already have a paid account there, it will not wreck all my links (supposedly) until January 2018, so people will have plenty of time to look at this one before it disappears, and before then I'll have found a new solution for image hosting
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I didn't even notice the butterfly in that picture! Those awful spiky things are some kind of sedge and they are nasty and unpleasant!
"Milk mushroom" can be either Russula or Lactarius... both of them have that sort of milky stuff when they're cut. A lot of Russulas are listed as edible but when I find them, something else has usually decided they are edible and has eaten them.
Most of the shelf fungi you find are on trees that are either dying or dead. In some places they probably clean up a lot of the dead wood and especially dying trees that might fall on other things, but out here there is lots of space and they just stand around and grow shelves as they die.
It IS a wonderful place to live and I wouldn't trade it for anything... winters are LONG and SNOWY but when summer does get here, there is SO MUCH TO SEE... it seems like there are months and months and months of cold and mud, and then this little burst of spring wildflowers, and then summer hits and suddenly there is something new every single day and it's hard to keep up!
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