Is that what today is? I have no idea what colors or things each day are now.
11 thoughts on “November 21, 2018: Brown Wednesday”
Good morning from beautiful Bagley, Minnesota. I left the house at 5:15 to cover a hearing only to have the other side waive it after I arrived. Oh well, I'm going to swing by Lake Itasca on my way home, which will be fun to see before flying to New Orleans tomorrow.
You're not far from the Motherland. Make sure to hum "Anchors Away" while you're there, fight song of the Bagley Fliers.
It is just starting to rain in the Sacramento region. We are hoping for a slow, steady rain to douse the fires up north and clear the air. Fearing microcells of intense rain that will cause mudslides up there.
Okay, mushroom specialists (I'm assuming it's related to a mushroom): I'm finding these round, hard mushrooms(?) around the border with my neighbor's yard, in the vicinity of their pin oak tree. They get to be about the size of a baseball, and I find them ~50% exposed from the ground? I'd look them up myself, but I'm raking 🙁
Pictures or it didn't happen, Rhu.
Also thank you for helping keep forest fires at bay in your neighborhood. Your country thanks you for your service.
I assume you're joking -- there was still snow in a couple places I raked, and it's too wet by far to try mow one last time.
here's a couple pics of one in captivity and one that broke open:
Right now I'm guessing Poison Pigskin Puffball or Potato Puffball.
Fascinating. Nature is weird.
The interior definitely looks like something related to those two you mentioned, though my preferred name would be "Earthball" Scleroderma sp.
I like to keep "Puffball" to the white-fleshed edible species in Lycoperdon, Calvatia, etc.
The exterior kindof makes me think more of the "False Truffles" of which my knowledge is very limited.
You may be on to something there -- these tend to grow 1/2 underground, and not as "clean" or necessarily spherical like the "puffballs" I've seen pictured. As a matter fact, truffles is the first thing that came to mind to me when I stumbled on a few last year, although I haven't seen one to know how accurate that might be.
Good morning from beautiful Bagley, Minnesota. I left the house at 5:15 to cover a hearing only to have the other side waive it after I arrived. Oh well, I'm going to swing by Lake Itasca on my way home, which will be fun to see before flying to New Orleans tomorrow.
You're not far from the Motherland. Make sure to hum "Anchors Away" while you're there, fight song of the Bagley Fliers.
It is just starting to rain in the Sacramento region. We are hoping for a slow, steady rain to douse the fires up north and clear the air. Fearing microcells of intense rain that will cause mudslides up there.
Okay, mushroom specialists (I'm assuming it's related to a mushroom): I'm finding these round, hard mushrooms(?) around the border with my neighbor's yard, in the vicinity of their pin oak tree. They get to be about the size of a baseball, and I find them ~50% exposed from the ground? I'd look them up myself, but I'm raking 🙁
Pictures or it didn't happen, Rhu.
Also thank you for helping keep forest fires at bay in your neighborhood. Your country thanks you for your service.
I assume you're joking -- there was still snow in a couple places I raked, and it's too wet by far to try mow one last time.
here's a couple pics of one in captivity and one that broke open:
Right now I'm guessing Poison Pigskin Puffball or Potato Puffball.
Fascinating. Nature is weird.
The interior definitely looks like something related to those two you mentioned, though my preferred name would be "Earthball" Scleroderma sp.
I like to keep "Puffball" to the white-fleshed edible species in Lycoperdon, Calvatia, etc.
The exterior kindof makes me think more of the "False Truffles" of which my knowledge is very limited.
You may be on to something there -- these tend to grow 1/2 underground, and not as "clean" or necessarily spherical like the "puffballs" I've seen pictured. As a matter fact, truffles is the first thing that came to mind to me when I stumbled on a few last year, although I haven't seen one to know how accurate that might be.
This Hawaii Islanders t-shirt is awesome.