3:00 snapshot, #85

On the way home from the Noon Hill Reservation.

See nice pictures of it here.

Disgusting substance of the day: Cold leafy mud, trod through with sandals! (I was more delighted than disgusted.)

Getting a jump on picspam day

Monday is my usual picspam day, but 1) I've built up a huge backlog 2) I have a ton of stuff to do tomorrow and 3) Alexis has passed out next to me, so she's no fun, so I'll start catching up now. It was so nice today (and the past couple days) that it's almost hard to remember how relentlessly rainy it was earlier this week. It was good for the slimy spring jelly fungi!



This is warty black jelly Exidia glandulosa.

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Lincoln, Mass

( five turkeys and a deer )

And then it got sunny!

Tree swallow guarding a man-made cavity nest box!

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