Vacation update #7: officially longer than the vacation itself

[urbpan]

Salmonberry.

This penultimate series of vacation snaps is mostly from in and around Forest Park, which, at "5,100 wooded acres [is] the largest, forested natural area within city limits in the United States." Some are from very close by Council Crest Park, which offers some nice views.



Portland Audubon Society Bird Sanctuary Pond. A long name for a small pond which is mostly newt breeding habitat.


Despite the dry weather we saw several banana slugs, including this bruised and spotty specimen best suited for banana slug bread.




This lone Coprinus mushroom stood in the moist dirt at the margin of the quite dry path.


Not a puffball, but some kind of slime mold unknown to me.


Another slime mold, close to the other one, in the process (it seems) of producing sporangia.


I believe this is Stemonitis axifera, or "Chocolate tube slime."


A nice collection of very durable polypore mushrooms.


Pixie cup lichens.


If you left Portland alone for a week or so, it would be covered in moss.


Council Crest Park is a good place to stand in a big city and see three large snowcapped mountains. Here's Mount Hood.





And then based on the signage, I gathered that these are Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens, but looking at pictures on the internet makes me confused about which is which. Little help?

Comments

[hhw]

I think the first uncertain volcano, with the flatter top, is MSH. (that is, the photo that follows Mt Hood)

[grrlpup]

Yes-- and for comparison, here's MSH from Portland in the 1950s, when it was less flat (eruption was in 1980):

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

ooh, berries :)

and banana slugs :>

but that slime mold looks like a pokemon - has a face.

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[weofodthignen]

Great mold pix. Absolutely disgusting banana slug pic. Heh, well done :-)