Mushrooms in the Berkshires

These are a special collection of pictures of growths in the Berkshires.  I need to study them more.

Shrooms that people should know about if anyone EVER says that color of orange that you dyed your hair does NOT exist in nature.

Lions mane mushrooms that I was afraid to just pluck off the tree.  It *looks* like the mushroom that I buy at the local Farmers' Market that tastes like lobster, but...

 These mushrooms look like clams, clinging to a tree.  (Yes, I KNOW clams don't cling to trees, they run from them like the oysters should have run from the carpenter.)

 

A view from the Round Rock Summit.

Pictures from Berkshires

We went to Hancock, MA.

I have several pictures that I might want for wallpaper someday.  Here are a few.

 

 

Or another horizon, without trees OR people blocking the view.

 

 

 Clouds casting a shadow over New England....

 

I think this tree is imitating The King Lizard, but to what end?

 

A bush imitating a hedgehog......

More pictures of New York Trees and Prospect Park

 A tree has grabbed the bricks fencing it in.  I think she's holding them hostage.

While this tree just started pushing the curb away.  "You're too close!"

 I suspect this tree of giving me the finger,

while this tree just got tired and fell down.

 

These are two trees that grew out of the stump of a felled tree.

Another felled tree that thinks it's sculpture.  Maybe it is.  How would we know?

Did cutting this tree down (you can see the split) cause the trunk to just give up and try to run with the rest of the tree?

The abandoned pond again.

The Goats in Riverside Park

 The Riverside Conservancy brought the goats back to Riverside Park to eat the weeds, and create a tourist spot.

I think they leave tomorrow, or after Labor Day.

That is a picture of the house where they can go when the weather turns bad.  You can see the goats on the tree in the back.

They did come over to say "hi!" though.

This one was hiding behind the tree.

This one came to say "hi!"

Trees in the wind

 I'll figure out something more meaningful to do with these later.

This is Prospect Park on a windy Sunday.

Trees crawling away!!!

 I think this tree knows what's coming and was getting ready to break for it.  Unfortunately one of the local children could hear its plans and convinced someone to build a smaller fence to keep it from moving.

I'm actually not sure which I find prettier, the flowers, or the buds that haven't yet become flowers.

The bee prefers the buds.

                                         

New day/new pictures

 New wallpaper options:

Punk Lillies

The Rose Garden

 

 

 

 The open butterfly

 

Rodents exercising

A worker bee

What the flowers look like without the bee.

The master of the duck's domain.

More from the Botanic Garden in June

Yesterday was lovely.  Today is also lovely.  Today I am officially on vacation.  I went back to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and wandered around.

This is a Japanese Maple behind a White Enkiantrus tree.

 

 I think these irises envy the tree that can brush the water like that with its leaves.
When the irises get hot, they can't dip into the water like that.

Trees fighting for light by the Japanese Pond.

 Here's an older tree, hunched over, searching for light.

A Caucasian Fir trying to sweep the needles away.

 

Roses chatting like neighbors, gossiping about other flowers in the garden.

Leaves growing from the bottom of the tree;  is that because it's the only way they can get light?

It's a baby Maple Tree!  When it grows big it will give us syrup!

I think this tree just decided to grow!

 As did a new pine (I pushed it;  it's not just a branch that's fallen off.  It's firmly attached to the ground.)

 

 

Here's another baby tree, but this one with an older sibling.

We're in Brooklyn, plants grow wherever they can.