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The scene last Friday beneath the lime-green and yellow leaf canopy of an elm tree I planted several years ago. Tomorrow, Sandy will claim the last vestige of this fall beauty.
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Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category
American Elms in Autumn
Sunday, October 28th, 2012After the rain, mushrooms
Monday, October 8th, 2012At noon today in the park I came across what I thought at first were flowers in the grass. Was this, I wondered, an out-of-season growth of wild violets?
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On closer inspection it turned out to be a spontaneous eruption of mushrooms, of a color I had never seen before.
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Unfortunately all the specimens in this small group had suffered damage prior to my arrival on the scene. I found no others anywhere in the field.
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I did not know purple mushrooms were so common. Some Google images can be found, here.
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