After yesterday’s whining about the rain passing us by, we finally got rain! No hard rain, but a steady drizzle most of the night and today. And it’s still drizzling on and off.
I think we’ll extend our stay here a couple of days and see if mushrooms start popping up Wednesday or so.
Since I can’t get out and take pictures today, I was going through others I’ve taken here and found some interesting and odd forest features to share.
A thick old vine embraces a young tree
Virginia Creeper on a tree
Dogwood berries
White flowers and an upside down ladybug
Old turkey tail fungi
Thick, fuzzy vines running up a pine
Greenbrier berries
Another vine covered tree trunk
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Lynne
/ September 18, 2012Around here, thick fuzzy vine means poison ivy! I am very allergic!
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tinycamper
/ September 18, 2012Lynne, it probably was poison ivy. I was so intrigued by the fuzziness that I didn’t pay attention to the leaves. But there is a LOT of poison ivy around here!
Very fortunately it doesn’t bother Ron or me, but I still give it a very healthy respect!
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Meg
/ September 18, 2012I was actually going to say something about the thick fuzzy vines but Lynne beat me to it. I’ll add that if they have groups of 3 “leaves,” each on its own little stalk – definitely stay away. We just had to deal with a whole lot of poison ivy at my brothers’ house; fortunately nobody got exposed but we had to hire a professional to get rid of it. (I wrote about it on a Squidoo lens called “Poison Ivy in Pennsylvania”; if you would like to see more pictures, including just of the vines, feel free to visit.)
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tinycamper
/ September 18, 2012Thanks, Meg. I will check it out! We are at a new site this evening and the trees are loaded with poison ivy. Fortunately it’s not in the area we walk in.
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Ann
/ September 18, 2012gorgeous photography, as usual!
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tinycamper
/ September 18, 2012I think you are a little prejudiced… but I love it, Annie! 😀
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Jo
/ September 19, 2012Sure happy the rain came, I love it when it drizzles and it has more benefit that a hard rain.
Great pictures.
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