Ugh. It’s probably more significant to have a good boss, but having good neighbors is significant too!
When you’re my age you will marvel at the energy you have now. Congratulations on the successful resolution!
Yesterday the missus, myself and my young pup went to one of the regional parks in Walnut Creek for a walk, a place that bakes in the summer and has now been a considerable time without much rain. You’re probably heard of the Golden Rolling Hills of California. They were much in evidence.
Fortunately they also had some recreational fields where I could throw a ball for my young short haired border collie, Ember. The next is a video hosted by Flickr but I find it will only play on my laptop, not my phone.
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What gives me hope is that I know guys in their 60s and 70s who are professional mushroom hunters and will hike 10+ miles a day with 100lbs+ of gear and mushrooms to bring them back. I just hope to fall near that. Which is a workout now for me. I’ve done it a few dozens times.
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I’ve had a good run but at 70 have found sciatica and arthritis difficult to accommodate. Not being able to use gyms or take classes is distinct disadvantage for me too. But I’m lucky to have a good relationship and a good dog and lots of interests. No telling how far you can go if you stay at it. The pandemic wiping out going to the YMCA was a big set back here.
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Found this lovely Panchlora nivea. It’s a “green banana cockroach”. It’s native to Cuba and has naturalized to southeastern USA through fruit exports. They are not really pests since they don’t like being indoors. They prefer outdoor spaces and most likely was on me and got tracked inside with my mushroom basket or clothes. I set it back free.
The Ringless Honey Mushroom. It’s edible though it’s one of the ones that like 1 out of 5 will get sick from. Luckily, I don’t. So far out of all the mushrooms that can cause sickness in some, I don’t get affected by. They are kind of heard to find because they blend in so well.
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I don’t know if this is appropriate for this topic. But since fossils are mineralized life forms, ie. God’s creation, here goes 
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These are trilobites displayed at the Willner Madge Dawn of Life gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum:
I am amazed at the skilled work of technicians in separating the fossils from the surrounding rock.
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Gotta love the ROM. It isn’t as big as some museums, but its paleontology section never loses its appeal.
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Some neat stuff I found on my hike. Though I was sick. Had a fever. Did not want to be cramped up inside all day. Would hike a bit, then rest and repeat.
It’s the Ghost/Corpse pipe flower and some magnolia cone mushrooms. Pink toothed polypore mushrooms. Water moccasin. A lion’s mane mushroom. Actually found about 4 golf ball sized ones on two different small logs. So I picked up the small 2-3 foot long old rotting logs and carried them about 100 feet off the trail to hide them so hopfully they will be grapefruit size in a few weeks.
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Like @Andy7 just above, I’m not sure this belongs here, but I didn’t know where else to put it – @klw and @Paraleptopecten will be interested I’m pretty sure, and it’s just down the road from you @SkovandOfMitaze, right? And @St.Roymond knows about sand spits, so I’ll include you. (A sand spit pit stop? ; - ) …
(I love brown thrashers, the true mocking birds, mocking the mockingbird who take themselves seriously. ; - )
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Yeah it’s really close to me. About 35 minutes away. Though as mentioned, it’s a narrow strip of land and so on a very bad busy day with one accident…… couod take 2 hours to get there lol. It’s the only place I’ve ever seen a horseshoe crab wash up at. Was going to pick it up, and some dude started yelling and ran up with a bucket and said it was his. I let him take it since he obviously saw it and went all the way back to get a bucket and we passed him. The dude ran about 2 1/2 miles in sand in to get the bucket and get back to it and then walked the 2 1/2 miles back. So I thought it would be a prick move to just be like no I picked it up and it’s mine lol. I would have if he would have been a jerk but he went instantly into please let me have it. I knew I would not walk 7 miles just to get it and so knew it meant more to him. I was just going to probably take it to a marine biologist I knew who goes to Dauphin Island often.
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Cool! It sounds like a similar spit of land in Canada that acts as a migration funnel, the southernmost place in Canada, “Long Point”. There’s a bird banding station there too. Nice to see so many familiar tools of my trade on the table–have spent many hours in the field mistnetting although not in the eastern part of the continent. The burgundy book by Peter Pyle the “bander’s bible” is sitting, well-used, on the bookshelf right above my computer as I’m typing…
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The whole batch is stunning but this one … wow!
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Otherworldly today.
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Ach! Wie lieb!
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Here is my Ent photo
Here in Nova Scotia, we don’t have many old trees. This one is at an Acadian site (Grand-Pré) that has been preserved as a park by the government.
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You got me curious so I asked Google …
Well that didn’t work so well. Here are some images from Flickr. It is a very pretty site.
Grand-Pré National Historic Site by TheNovaScotian1991, on Flickr
Grand Pré National Historic Site & Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia by michael dunn, on Flickr
Pond, view to Memorial Church, Grand-Pré National Historic Site, Nova Scotia by Paul McClure, on Flickr
Maybe another view of the Ent?
Grounds at Grand Pre National Historic Site by Jen Polegatto, on Flickr
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