Crepidotus

This beautiful Crepidotus was growing on a broken-off branch that was lying on the ground when a few of us went to search for Lichens and Fungi yesterday, at West Bragg Creek. This is the gilled, underside, which I always love to see. By the way, Crepidotus means "cracked ear". I'm out for a long day of botanizing south west of the city today - in rain (like yesterday) all day, according to the forecast. We seem to be having June's weather in August - it really barely seems to have been any summer this year, though I'm certainly happy to have had cooler weather on many days. See you later.

(Later: apologies - I replaced this photo after about nine hours, as so few people seemed to have seen it. Usually, I don't upload photos at some unearthly hour of the morning, well maybe around 7:30 a.m., so I suspect today's pics were somehow buried by all the photos people uploaded later during the day. I really do dislike replacing an image, as I know it pushes everyone else's photos one place further "down". Which is why it is really annoying when people do this every single day, sometimes as many as three times in one day! Very rough location marked on my map - really not quite sure where the right spot is.

Not sure what's going on with my computer at the moment. The hard drive just constantly "runs" when I load MY Pictures, and this evening it was making copies of photos and adding them to a different folder in My Pictures. I was constantly trying to delete these unwanted copies, but it just kept copying more and more - hundreds of the wretched things!

Thanks so much to the folks at the SuperEco group for posting this shot as an "Admin photo of the week", for the week ending August 14th, 2010. Much appreciated!