Sunday, January 31, 2010

Latest Pictures From Colorado

Mount Massive 

 




Note above: bunny tracks.
The next three pictures fall into the category of  'things that look like people.' See if you can find Yosemite Sam!

  
Ok. The picture above isn't really a thing that looks like a person. Looks more like that blobby guy from Star Wars (to me anyway).
 
Here's a hint. Yosemite Sam is in this tree's sappy surface.

I was thinking that it would be fun to publish readers' own photos of "things that look like people." If you have one, send it to me! If it's good (or you're good), I'll print it. Send your entries to HowardO. 

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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This little fellow was negotiating for part of my lunch at the peak of Twin Sisters in Colorado when I took his picture. I really wanted to give him food; but I once heard that they may become dependent on man and won't survive the winter. Sorry. :-(

Sunday, October 25, 2009

BWCA Mushrooms




Bugle boy here is a polyporus elegans.
If you can identify any of these mushrooms, please let me know. RamariaThe next two photos are pretty little red buttons on a portage heading into Ge-be-on-e-quet Lake. I could not locate them for myself even after Dan told me exactly where to look. Maybe because I'm color blind and old. (My family also says that I'm losing my hearing. But I don't think that has anything to do with it.) Dan saw them because he was carrying the canoe and had no where to look but down... That last statement is not really true. Dan always looks out for mushrooms for me.
I just found out that these red mushrooms are hygrocybes.

lactarius spLeccinum sp
Moonlight Mushrooms


We are fun guys. Oh, yes we are! We are slime mold. Yuk.


Finally, this is Dan. He carries the canoe across portages and has a great eye for mushrooms. Thanks, Dan.