February 27, 2013

  • AFTER THE RAINS CAME AND WENT

    The woods were quiet yesterday morning, as if the denizens were stilled stunned by the savage rain of the night before

     

     

     

    It was windy and cool, no one was fishing

     The Econfina was swollen, running hard

    Spanish moss clings to life on an oak tree, which is all it ever does

    Little steams leading to the river were rampaging torrents compared to their usual brooklet selves

     

     Star Anise, a bottom-land, understory plant

     Fungi break down dead wood, return it to the soil from whence it came

    Witches Butter(Tremella mesenterica), is an edible fungus

     

    A final look down into the ravine. Soon, Spring's greenery will fill in the blank spaces, and this vista will disappear until next winter

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