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Shrooms With a View (From the Stump)

Kind of got carried away wordcountwise in the previous post, so I’ll try to be more concise this time. That one dealt with what I’m pretty sure were fungi that seemed to be growing out of the ground (though often probably attached to plant roots somewhere deep below the surface); this one more with fungi…

Shrooms With a View (From the Ground)

It’s been over a year since I put together a fungus post, but now that Rhapster/Napsody eliminated the music editor postion I’d been holding down forever, I suddenly — at least temporarily (I hope, I guess) — have more time on my hands, hence providing me an opportunity to catch up. I’ve meanwhile, as I…

Ad-Hoc Structures in the Mary Moore Searight Woods

Since a presumably money-and-fuel-saving consolidation of Austin Independent School District bus stops pushed my daughter’s morning dropoff a couple miles further east to Paredes Middle School this fall, I’ve been spending more morning hikes exploring the wooded portions of 344-acre Mary Moore Searight Metropolitan Park, an enchanted land where venous and arterial trails split off…

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