Nature post again!

[rubyelf]

 I don't have much to talk about besides nature posts, but at least on the weekend I can take a walk and go look for some cool things. I do have to be careful, though... I've been told that my hip flexor injury will not get better if I keep damaging it. Psh.

Anyway...

Comments

[matheius]

DINOSAUR EGGS!!! I know you said turtle but I decided to believe that there are dinosaurs there.

And that's a dinosaur beaver skull. Somebody was using it as a can opener like in the Flintstones.

In my mind you were crawling with your nose to the ground and came face-to-face with that toad. The toad blinked slowly at you and then said 'ribbit' in the same voice that Droopy had in the cartoons.

[rubyelf]

Turtles are even older than dinosaurs, so that's probably not an inaccurate comparison. And there ARE dinosaurs there, except that they are now mostly small and all have feathers. Birds actually belong in the same evolutionary clade as dinosaurs and are their direct descendants. Well, from one specific group of dinosaurs, but basically, birds are dinosaurs.

I don't know that beavers are dinosaurs but they COULD be.

I was actually down on my hands and knees with my nose about six inches off the ground, trying to see if I could find spore prints on plants underneath a mushroom (spore color helps with identification and sometimes the spores fall on plants) and that little bastard jumped out from under the leaves and made me fall on my ass.

[matheius]

Then it said 'ribbit' in a Droopy voice. Gotcha.

[rubyelf]

Yes. I think that was its commentary on my behavior.

[ragnarok_08]

Whoa, that skull looks just incredible!!

The fungi and plants looks cool - it's very fascinating to read about them in your posts :)

[rubyelf]

Thank you!

[vjezkova]

You made me very happy! What a great mushroom display! Especially your explanation about the "fruit" and the "real stuff" - see? I will now remember the mycelium. This example is like from a textbook and I love it! Lucky you, so many lovely specimens but you did have heavy rain, didn´t you? We are still suffering from terrible drought and of course, no mushrooms anywhere, not even those parasitic ones on the trees. BTW I love the oyster mushrooms, not only they are very tasty but they are also very healthy.
Ah, this is so interesting to see that even this mammal has the same skull evolution like human children. I would never noticed, not even if I found a skull myself.
Of course I will never find turtle egg shells here but I do remember from your previous post that their structure is leathery.
It is good to see that there is that never-ending life circle still perfectly all right there.
Many thanks again for your great nature post!

[rubyelf]

We had some VERY heavy rain... there was a lot of flooding! Not good for a lot of plants but it seems to have made the mushrooms happy!

I am going to make sure that next year when that stump sprouts oysters, I get there before the slugs do!

[bluegerl]

That first funghi looks like a wonderful citron ice cream! that's all we can think about here, is iced ANYTHING! We're doing a USA for temps right now.

But the champignon are gorgeous... little round bullet heads and so STRONG! so QUICK... and you are so so so right about digging and looking at roots. If they're obviously ok - okay, but with queries!

and the skeletons. That is a big head... and the TEEETH... lordy me.
Hah. just paid £400 for mine and they aren't half that size... hahaha

You mind that hip love, cos they don't half restrict one when they're rotten on you but you do have to pay attention. Nowt worse than NOT being able to walk about. Gaahh been there doing that!

And for Kissy Trees to die together. aahhhhhhh.

The colours on those 'turkey tails' are wonderful. No end of choice. But the oyster ones do look good, even if too old?

And a 'pink' dianthus. not a bit like our dianthuses nor pink!! but such a pretty little thing.

And its lovely to have Matty back with his outrageous comments. I heartily agree

[rubyelf]

I learn so many new things about mushrooms all the time, no matter how many times I go out and look at them and dig them up!

It would be nice for humans if their teeth just kept growing in new and healthy all the time... except that then we would have to keep blocks of wood around and chew on them all day long to keep them under control, and that would be messy.

The hip... stupid tendon. Apparently it will probably not get entirely better, so I am supposed to be careful with it, but at least it's not arthritis or some other awful bone thing.

I am never sure if any of the dozen things people call "turkey tail" are actually the OFFICIAL "turkey tail", but it seems a suitable name for such things in general.

Moth says the "pink" is because they look like they were trimmed with pinking shears, not because of the color!