Showing posts with label Fungus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fungus. Show all posts
Friday, October 16, 2009
My Thanksgiving Walk ~ The Forest Floor..Beauty in the Smallest of Things
Well today is about the small the beautiful, it's about fungus and what it does with the decaying wood on the forest floor. Living and helping with the decomposing process. Providing nutrients to the soil for the other trees to absorb in the spring. I love the simple things in life...the things overlooked and taken for granted. Our forest are our largest resource and provider of the oxygen that we breath and the homes for our animals. Our forest and all that live there should always be something we stop and look at and not forget about. Something we should always protect.....our future depends on it.
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Beauty of Fungus ....The Toad Stool
Have you ever noticed that when you have the opportunity to go for a walk in a very wooded forest where very little light filters onto the forest floor that you can smell that lovely rich aroma in the air. The smell of wood, moisture and freshness? I love that smell and I love everything that the forest provides for all life. One example of this process is Fungus it just loves the fallen old trees that have made the forest floor their final resting place that provides living spaces for bugs, grubs, Gastropods and mainly any living thing that relies on these process to occur. My favorite is the toadstool mainly for it's unquestionable beauty. It totally takes advantage of the moisture and lack of light in the soft spongy wood of dead trees....I just love the contrast from the decomposing of wood with life living....
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