Sunday, September 7, 2008

Procrastination Unearths Surprise


I was going to write this sometime ago, but you know how procrastinators are. We tend to put things off. We also tend toward redundancy. I seem to repeat myself a lot. But that's another story.

This is the story about a bunch of split firewood that has been laying outside our woodshed for several years. A mixture of maple, cedar and a little alder, we have been putting off getting under cover. We finally did it this weekend and we found an interesting little surprise in there.

My son, grandson and I were picking up the pieces and throwing them in the pickup when we spotted some strange looking mushrooms growing in the dark of the pile on the maple. Knowing that if we stopped for very long we'd just slip into procrastinator mode again, I just grabbed the Nikon D40 and snapped this one shot before getting back to work.

We're not big on mushrooms, so I have no idea what kind these are. Clearly they prefer maple as a host. Anyone know?

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