Posts Tagged ‘oak tree’

Its Final Appearance

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

Two Octobers ago, while walking the dog, I came across an eruption of tree mushroom fungi at the base of an old oak (photos). Recently the weathered tree succumbed to old age and city contractors came to chain-saw and remove its above-ground bulk. A stump remains, but it too will soon be ground up and disposed of. And so this October the fungi reappeared to take a colorful final bow.

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