NATURE POST!

[rubyelf]

I got to go to my lake today!

Finally got a few hours that didn't belong to chores or schoolwork or doing things for other people... it was a lovely, cool, overcast day. I wasn't sure if there would be mushrooms out this late in the year and with the heavy frosts we've been having at night, but I found some, and some other cool things too!

Comments

[moth2fic]

Those are all fascinating and your photos are brilliant too. Your trees are a little further into their autumn colours than ours, but not by much.

[rubyelf]

We've had a perfect combination of cold frosty nights and warm sunny days... makes the colors more vivid.

[becofoz]

The colours at the lake are gorgeous. I especially like the second photo of the lake with the autumn colours. I'm glad you got to go out.

[rubyelf]

I like that picture too... I take SO many pictures of my lake.

[bluegerl]

Ohhh Ruby... oh just damned wonderful. All that lake, ALL FOR YOU!!! Isn't it the MOSTEST!!!! Can't choose a favourite out of those photos... just oh... to sit, and watch and ... empty the world out and take Nature IN

[rubyelf]

I know I've run into pictures of the orange ones Honey and Brat brought for me, but I cannot remember or find what it is.

I was very, very happy to find the shaggy manes... I never get to see them and these ones are so pretty!

And yes, those are milkweed seeds inside the pod... odd-looking things. And yes, bugs with mouthparts to puncture plants can give humans a nice jab as well, although they generally don't.

And the ospreys haven't been around lately... I think once the babies are flying they don't spend much time at the nest, and they're probably heading for the southern waters now.

[vjezkova]

Your lake loves you, I am sure of that. What a marvelous place! Rarely we can see such a display of brilliant colours.
You have already had night frosts...and still you could find fine specimens of mushrooms! They are amazing and beautiful.Thanks to the extreme drought this summer, mushrooms had bad conditions here and didn´t grow, now it rains every day but it is probably too cold for them to "restart". But I did see a puffball in the meadow and someone has eaten it. You are right, those huge puffballs are delicious when young.
The shaggy manes! They grow in the meadow just behind our fence. I love the English name, in Czech the name is related more to that ugly stage of their existence.
How nice from Honey and Brat to bring these exotic-looking ones to you.
We are both very lucky to live in a close contact with nature!

[rubyelf]

We are lucky!

It's been cold at night and warm during the day, which seems to make the mushrooms happy and keep the bugs from eating them.

We have some rather crude common names for mushrooms here, too... such as "dog pecker".

I like that my Honey and even Brat think to bring me mushrooms.

[monkiainen]

Yay for you for getting time to go to your lake and get pictures to show us :)

[rubyelf]

I always take lots of pictures when I go out.