Mickey and I took an early morning walk to the park a few days ago. He let me put his harness on without a bit of fuss since he watched me put on my dog walking shoes!
We saw a kind of mushroom new to me. No images look like them. I'm still waiting to hear from the Ask Extension, the online University of Oregon Extension Service. You upload photos and ask your question. I've had mixed results in the past. I have seen Scaly Hedgehogs (really, that's a mushroom name!), but those were more shingled looking on top. I almost passed these by mistaking them for chunks of wood.
The roofed area with picnic tables in the school yard is finished. Not open to the students yet though, as they are working on the perimeter path, which you can see on the other side of the fence. It's like that decomposed granite that packs down. Plus, I hope they plan on some grass to play on! Although, if they seed that the students won't be able to get in the area for months.
Some sort of drainage, maybe related to the new splash pad. I don't really have any idea, but it wasn't there before. One online search identified it as a flooded bar-b-q area! Right... because those are often down in a gully. 
I guess it's not a gully, but a swale of some sort. I wonder if it will fill come the rainy season? I already had to tell Mickey he could not go down and investigate!
They'd watered a bit much. I could save this for a Skywatch Friday, however I have some better sky puddle reflection photos for that! That's the dog park on the left. The mushrooms are growing in the narrow area outside the long length of fence. The wood chips were locally sourced, so they mushrooms would be something native. I miss the old path, it was along the perimeter of the park, near the fence-line. That's where the big trees still are, the ones Mickey was used to... umm... visiting.
The early morning walk was nice and cool. Days are still getting into the 90s, but nights cool down a lot. The house stayed cool yesterday (which is good since the air conditioner went out).
Tomorrow is Thursday Postcard Hunt. I hunted for the theme Learning: History/Historical Buildings.
Friday and Saturday is the big annual book clearance at the main branch. Last time I went was probably 2019. Naturally, they didn't have it for a few years after that. I mostly remember how crowded it was, and how terribly hot it was in the room. Books are donation based, so pay what you want. I feel guilty doing it that way, like I'm never donating enough. It pales in comparison to the book give-away when I lived in CA. It was in a parking lot, with cardboard boxes arranged only by fiction, non-fiction, and children's. A very large county with lots of weeded books. All free, and I was considered a teacher since I was homeschooling, and could go the week before the public. They brought dozens of new boxes a day. Maybe hundreds. We'd just fill plastic containers with books and dump them in the back of my SUV, then go back for more! I had stacks of novels in my bedroom to last months! Here's an old article. It was never as busy as the first photo shows when I went.
Yeah, the one here is tiny! And not free. I'll go though.
...since it is has been so dry here, mushrooms are scarce.
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