Late winter in Penn's Woods - gray trees reaching toward the glowering ever-gray sky, brown leaves underfoot, empty milkweed pods, dried goldenrod seed heads, the faraway tat-a-tat tat of a woodpecker, remnants of snow no longer sparkling and white. But then, this ...
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| perhaps Cinnabar Polypore |
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| along the Billy Lewis Trail |
Such a beautiful array in unexpected places, subtle and riotous, often overlooked in other seasons of the year when there's so much to compete for our attention. It was only after I began to look at the pictures I'd snapped on several hikes that curiosity kicked in and I attempted (shaky attempt at best) to put names to what I'd observed.
Read more about the winter fungi in Pennsylvania here.
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| green bracket fungi |
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| brown on brown |
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perhaps this one is King Alfred's Cake
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