Fun Fungi

Waking up early for this week's activities feels hard, but it's helping to get me back to my nature sleeping rhythm since having COVID. Up early for a farm volunteer morning.

The hike yesterday was nice. We only hiked a few miles and rather slowly, but the conversation was great and we were excited about the variety of mushrooms after so much rain. 

Mist on the river.
All the geese standing
on the rocks.

Strange thing -- there's a creek crossing on this hike that runs down a mountainside. It can be tricky because you can't always see the rocks to step since the water is running white from the downhill. It was completely dry. I was concerned it would be too high and get over my shoes since it's rained for 13 days and we had big storms last night. How is this possible? I want to understand more about it. Even in the driest conditions, I've never seen it so low. Just little pools of water -- nothing moving.

I finished this book -- really ended up liking it. It's 4 parts. A story written about a wealthy couple in the early 1900's. Then the man's autobiography. Then a perspective from an employee who worked for him. Then the wife's journal. It's about unreliable narrators and would make an interesting bookclub discussion. Didn't see the ending coming -- very clever.

I have a library read coming -- historical fiction about Agatha Christy. I'll read with a different lens after the last book.

I pulled out the basil from my main garden. I still have the porch basil. Some of the basil I had in water rooted so I'm going to try and plant it. The garden basil stems are wood at the base. Couldn't cut it -- had no idea basil got that sturdy. I couldn't see the base until I cut it down. The leaves were turning black and falling off after almost 2 weeks of heavy rains. Time to let it go and begin again.

Here's the chair from my aunt. It's from President McKinley's house in Buffalo. My other aunt has the mate. It needs a foot repair and a cleaning, but I like it a lot.

That's all from here. Farm flower day. Lots of bees and probably spiders -- they were in full force on the hike. I expect lots of plant learning today. Later gators.