September 12, 2003
Freaky white stuff
There's some kind of particularly weird fungus fruiting in the woods right now -- it's taken over selected stumps, but it also surfaces on random sheltered patches of ground or through beds of moss. It looks a little like snow, more like those scenes where someone has strewn gouts of powdered soap on the ground to imitate snow.
My guess is that the body of the fungus extends underground with filaments connecting all of these scattered surface bits, but that could be complete crap. I do know that I've been standing well clear of the stuff and avoiding accidental contact. It skeeves me right out, possibly because back in high school I read Kenneth Robeson's The Frosted Death.
In the meantime, the pictures also look a little strange because it's flash time in the forest. Leaf cover is still full, but the light is fading.
