weathered wood 'n fungi

i mentioned in my last post...
that my NEXT post
would be pictures of mushrooms...lichen...fungi...wood
taken while camping in georgia
between christmas and new years.

enjoy...the fungusamungus!

fungi...and weathered wood...always make me stop in my tracks!

wild. natural. mysterious. each is unique...in color...size...shape...

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? 

Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."

~Henry David Thoreau 

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - 

we all dance to a mysterious tune, 

intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.  

~Albert Einstein, 

in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929 

during the week we were gone. other than the geese...

and a few other birds...

and an occasional turtle sticking its head up out of the water...

evidence of deer and raccoons by the tracks we spotted...

we didn't see any other wildlife! 

no fish. no squirrels. no insects.

SO, you can imagine how excited i got, when our last morning...

as we were packing up...i saw this brightly colored bug!!

(i'm not sure what it is...if i find out...i'll let you know...)

**thanks to Kate (2nd comment on post)...yes! this is a box elder bug!!**

i'm always picking stuff up.

collecting.

bones, rocks, shells, feathers...

well, here's a picture of all the STUFF collected last week.

goose feathers. small rocks. a snail shell.

and  "what's that white fluffy stuff?"  you ask?

it's just what it looks like...cotton!  

we drove by field after field...in north florida & georgia...

huge rectangular bales of cotton sitting at the edge of the fields awaiting pick up.

cotton that was ripped away from the bales...

by the wind...

as they sit on the back of flatbeds...

dotting the roadways...like snow.

sam...seeing that longing look in my eyes...

pulled over so i could grab a handful from the side of the road.

he knows me well!

((gotta get ready for work...))

keep wandering. have a safe journey.

stay cool.

laura  :]