Wordy Wednesday - December 17, 2025

 Mickey and I took a walk to the park on Sunday morning.  I found it miserable, but he enjoyed it.  It was foggy and damp and cold, and without gloves my hands felt like they were freezing.  Of course, they weren't.

I did find some mushrooms to photograph!

These were big ones. 

The back view shows one newly emerged from the soil. 

Some had dew drops on their caps.

Later in the day (still foggy and damp and cold) I spotted this one all alone in the path of the herb garden. 

December always means the bird's nest fungus appear!  These are the Common bird's nest.  I found Fluted ones in the park in September. 

Under dew on spider's webs.

Pixie cup lichen are also called trumpet lichen.  Here they are growing with moss, possible forked moss. 

More mosses.  These are Red Shank mosses growing on pumice. 

This one growing in a rock crack might be cushion moss.

Hope your week has been going well.  Can you believe next Wednesday is Christmas Eve?  

Oh!  I can't believe I forgot to mention this!

Sunday night I'd gone to pick up a pizza and when I got back quess what came snorting up to me in the carport?

A Boston Bull Terrier!  Being Sunday night there was only one place I could think of to scan him for a micro-chip, the emergency vet.  Thankfully he had a chip, the vet's staff called the owners, who came and got him.   I was in the right place at the right time, even if my pizza (well, mine was a sandwich) was cold!   Micro-chips work, make sure your pets have them.  Now, if he'd had a tag on his collar it would have been a much shorter ordeal for all of us.   If you wonder, yes, he constantly snorted and snuffled.  Cute, yes (I guess...), but don't support the breeding of such short-nosed breeds.  Those noses didn't use to be this short, and some breeders are working to bring back the healthier ones of the past.