3:00 snapshot #1379

On the Saturday of this Labor Day Weekend Alex came over and enjoyed some Back Bay IPA.


It's always nice to closely examine the apothecia (fruiting bodies) of the blue crustose lichen on the Norway maple twig, before consigning it to a firey demise.

Rainy weekend wildlife

A sudden change in weather, from drought conditions to thunder and downpours, is bound to make some different living things pop up here and there. Here is a fresh fruiting body of Polyporus alveolaris, the hex-polypore, on a twig of shagbark hickory.
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