3:00 snapshot #805

I've spent most of the past week managing these two things. Here they don't understand why I'm pointing the camera at them rather than letting them out.

3:00 snapshot #806

View out the living room window.

Edible things that grew in our yard

I'm saving the nasturtium and the weird spherical cucumbers for when Alexis gets back (TWO AND A HALF HOURS, THANK GOD) and I brought the ringless honey mushroom in for a spore print (IT TURNED TO GOO AND MAGGOTS) but them tomaters are gooooooood (AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE TOMATERS).


Pork chop, rice, onions, and "baby bellos" (Agaricus bisporus) from the stupidmarket, bell peppers from Dedham Farmer's Market, tomaters from our garden.

I don't know why I'm talking like this. I think I'm delirious.

3:00 snapshot #807

The Dedham Farmer's market. I was actually over by the side to get MY picture taken for the facebook page (happy customer and all that) when my alarm went off.

3:00 snapshot #808

Here the dogs somewhat impatiently pose for yet another snapshot, on the "Bold Knob Trail" in the Stonybrook Reservation. They are impatient partly because of the mosquitoes, but mostly because of the thunder. They think I must be a bold knob indeed to be stopping for a picture while lightning could strike at any second.


It's a pity I couldn't linger there, because the woods were full of mushrooms--like everywhere else this summer into fall. I stopped for this one because I'd never seen it before. This is one case where it makes more sense to use the common name than the scientific name. Not just because "golden spindles" is a nice name, but because the guides agree on that, while variously using the scientific names Clavulinopsis laeticolor, Clavaria pulchra, Clavulinopsis pulchra, and Ramariopsis laeticolor.

EDITED TO ADD: Mycologist Noah Siegel says that it's Clavulinopsis fusiformis, meaning my initial identification was incorrect.