Hello everyone!  I am certainly late with this today, terrible really.  Just been one of those days.  Had a lot that needed to be done today and since I’m still not moving that fast, it took longer than I expected.  Oh well, these things happen now and then.  Good thing it doesn’t happen too often though.  It has been mainly a cloudy day but it did barely get to the melting point today, now the wind has begun to bring in cooler temps.  Unfortunately that means there will be even more ice around for the next couple of weeks.  There was some ice fog again last night which put a thick layer of frost on everything.  It looked amazingly beautiful, especially up close.  I took some pics but haven’t had an opportunity to really look at them yet, so not sure how they turned out.

But for now, some warmer pics for us to enjoy…

Here we have a fantastic view of the bottom of a large white mushroom, though unfortunately I don’t know the name or if it’s edible.  But they are beautiful anyway.

And here we have “lactarius vinaceorufescens”.  It has a very acrid flavor, slowly getting extremely hot.  But not poisonous anyway.  It is a common mushroom in this area and up to 4 inches (10cm) across.

There we have our look at some more intriguing mushrooms for our area up here in the north.  Have a wonderful day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin. (who is presently snoring)

© 2020 Steve McLeod.

Good morning to everyone!  I hope your day is off to a great start.  I was watching the sun set last night and after the sun had disappeared some clouds came along and filled the horizon.  They looked like large gray mountains against the pale blue sky.  Didn’t stay that way long though and they leveled out to look more like clouds once again.  The evenings are so much longer now since the time change, really makes the day feel different.  But I like those long evenings, especially as we get into summer and daylight lingers well after 10pm.  And of course it’s daylight by 4 am which is even nicer for guys like me.  I’m a morning person, which of course you already knew.  So I enjoy getting up early in the summer, going out on the deck with my coffee and listening to the morning chorus of birds.  So nice indeed.

And as I mentioned, more birds for us to look at today…

Here we have both the male (yellow) and female evening grosbeak.  I showed the male a short time ago but wanted to show the 2 of them together.

And here is the male purple finch, which we have around now, but they get a brighter red once spring fully arrives.  Even their beak often takes on a more pinkish color.  Tomorrow I think we will be back with some more bright flowers once again.  I hope you have a very enjoyable day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

© 2020 Steve McLeod.