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Sunday, September 13, 2009

9/13/09 A BIG BEAR AND A PRETTY MUSHROOM




Sunday, 8:00 AM. 64 degrees, wind W, light, the channel and Island are obscured by heavy fog, and the sky is overcast. The barometer predicts rain, but I think not.
Mike, owner of the Seagull Bay Motel down the road, reports a huge black bear patrolling the Brownstone Trail all the way into downtown, and that the cops had to shoo him back into the woods the other day.
I appreciate mushrooms for their beauty more than anything else. The one pictured, from the woods path, I believe to be Russula rugulosa, in the Agaricus family. Note that it has no bulbus base, nor ring on the stem beneath the cap. Very pretty, and listed as edible, but not by me!

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