Goodnight friends! Skies a little less foreboding today with broad blue penants, a slight humidity in the air but without the gloom and the press of wet wind its suddenly clear how mild it is, not like some recent days where 16°c felt like 12 or 10. Even more new mushrooms spotted and IDd, like a mirror to the heady days of late spring when you can make a spell-like litany of known life around you – yellow, stump-loving shaggy scalycaps and camembert brittlegills with their collapsed centres, tight packed mica caps and sturdy birch-boletes.
A few spells of fatigue and my first pang of indigestion in a while, which always slows me down even more with its constricted, panic-like sensation. With a bit of cautious pacing and changes to my schedule, I still managed to follow through with my goals for the day – food prep, a mini nature walk and a fairly full set of stretches as well as a little more stop-start writing.
May we find a sense of balance and contentment in our lives today!
Image ID: Photo of a collection of scots pine cones that have been chewed to the quick, looking like little more than scraps of raw wood bearing spiral grooves, laying on grass thickly layered with forked needle leaves and the severed, teardrop-shaped scales that once hid the seeds within the cones.
Photo of a pair of lilac fibrecap mushrooms pressed close against each other and tucked slightly under the edge of an orange fallen linden leaf, their glossy caps streaked and blotched with shades of pale pink and purple.
