Re: PESO x2: Mushrooms

[David Mann]

On Dec 28, 2021, at 11:39 PM, Henk Terhell  wrote:

> For me it is not unusual to see clusters of mushrooms on dead and
> almost dead trees.Seeing fungi on the trunk of a living tree is
> usually a bad sign.
> My own record is this picture of honey fungi:
> https://flic.kr/p/2hvrRRR

Wow, that's impressive. My daughter liked it too.

The fungus on our tree is quite large and it's right down at the base. We had a 
smaller tree down by the river which split and fell in a storm a few months 
ago. That one was rotten inside with fungus on its trunk that we hadn't 
noticed. We've been thinking about getting some arborists in at some stage 
anyway, sadly the two trees with fungus were ones I'd been wanting to keep.

Cheers,
Dave
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OT: Most fascinating animals of the year

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Season's Greetings

[Stanley Halpin]

A hearty Ho Ho Ho etc. to all! 

I am in limbo. The guy we contracted with last April to rebuild our flooded 
kitchen cabinets? Talked with him last week. “Materials are finally in, I’ll 
stop by sometime after Christmas to discuss…” 

The guy who last March  was going to rebuild the damaged lower dresser drawers? 
I texted him, he said they would be done probably next week? 

The guy who was going to arrange for an engineer to get an estimate on raising 
our rental unit a few feet so as to be above Flood Plain so that we can rebuild 
the major damage caused by the wind-toppled 100-foot white pine? Some time this 
week, maybe?

The lady who was going to arrange our secondary internet connection so that our 
niece Mary can re-establish her home office here now that she can’t live in the 
damaged rental? Still waiting for a call back.

[Back story on the rental: our niece lives there. We lived with her 8 months 
last year after our home was flooded. The pine tree blew over onto her house 
Dec 11th. She’s moved in with us. Because we are in a flood plain, special 
rules apply. The U.S. Government subsidizes the cost of flood insurance, and 
communities that agree to FEMA’s rules are given more generous discounts on the 
insurance. FEMA’s rules are designed to avoid constant rebuilding of structures 
in jeopardy, like along the coast in the traditional path of hurricanes or in 
known flood plains in the interior. Requirement is that the community will not 
provide a building permit to any upgrade or repair unless either A- the cost of 
the upgrade or repair does not exceed 50% of appraised value, or B- the 
structure is brought up to current building code. So, above the flood plain, 
with up-to-date wiring, etc. We will likely be well over 50% of appraised 
value,  and thus anticipate Option B is going to come into play. So the first 
question is, how high do we need to raise the rebuilt/replaced structure? 
Probably 3-4 feet. And meanwhile niece Mary has lost her home office. She works 
for a hospital on medical insurance issues. Usually about 90% from home. But 
because of the private sensitive nature of what she deals with, her home office 
work computer cannot be WiFi, it needs a hardwire ethernet connection. Our 
cable modem is at the other end of the house, so I am trying for a secondary 
connection in “her” new office…]

So, waiting, waiting, frustrated at having so many of these details which are 
just out of my control. I took the requisite shots of the tree down across the 
house, of the crane lifting the pieces out, the guys nailing sheets of plywood 
and tarps across the holes in the roof. But I can’t be too excited about any of 
those shots. One of my occasional outlets is cooking, but that is harder with 
Mary here. We get along well with Mary, we are comfortable with her in our 
home. But she is still dealing with damage caused by her COVID over a year ago. 
Loss of taste has now become distortion of taste, so there are a very limited 
number of food options that she can tolerate. I could still make my sausage and 
cheese breakfast casserole or my 3-meat 8-bean chili. But she wouldn’t be able 
to eat those, might not even be able to tolerate the odor if she were in the 
same room with those, and so it wouldn’t be right for me to indulge.

I am looking forward to getting some of these nuisance details out of the way! 
And I am looking forward to some travel we have booked for 2022, some trips 
just for relaxation, some trips (e.g. Iceland) for exploration and photo ops. 
And hoping that we can zig-zag our way through the COVID restrictions and 
outbreaks. While life has not been ideal for us lately, we have avoided serious 
tragedy, I know that many of you are facing similar woes, and we are all ready 
for a big party! Or something. 

Meanwhile, Ho Ho Ho and serious best wishes for a healthy productive prosperous 
New Year! 

Stan
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Re: PESO x2: Mushrooms

[Alan C]

Incredible!

Alan C

On 28-Dec-21 12:39 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:

For me it is not unusual to see clusters of mushrooms on dead and
almost dead trees.Seeing fungi on the trunk of a living tree is
usually a bad sign.
My own record is this picture of honey fungi:
https://flic.kr/p/2hvrRRR

Henk

Op di 28 dec. 2021 om 02:36 schreef David Mann :

On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:53 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:


I don’t think I’ve seen a cluster of mushroom growing out of a tree trunk such 
as those in the first pic. Is the tree alive or dead?

I'm not sure whether the tree was still alive. Seeing mushrooms like that on a 
trunk was a surprise to me as well. There were several clusters at different 
heights. The one I photographed was at about my head height.

I've seen very small mushrooms growing from crevices of tree trunks before but 
nothing this big.  We have some impressive bracket fungi on our property, one 
on an old stump and another on a living tree, which is probably going to have 
to be cut down as a result as it'll be weakening the wood.

Cheers,
Dave


Rick


On Dec 26, 2021, at 4:49 AM, David Mann  wrote:

I went running on some trails up the hill today and a couple of mushrooms 
caught my eye. My daughter is really interested in mushrooms so I stopped each 
time to take photos with my phone.

I don't know what type this one is...
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1124/#peso

But I do know a fly agaric when I see one. I had seen the broken-off head of a 
small one on the side of the trail so I looked up the bank to see if there were 
more, and found this.
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1125/#peso

Cheers,
Dave
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Re: PESO x2: Mushrooms

[Henk Terhell]

Í don't know. Contrary to eastern and southern Europeans, most people
in our area have little knowledge of the edibility of mushrooms and
are cautious therefore.
And it is officially forbidden to gather mushrooms in our nature reservates.
I once followed a short course in fungi and in the field the
instructor chewed on many mushrooms as a way of identifying.

Henk

Op di 28 dec. 2021 om 14:27 schreef ann sanfedele :
>
> wow - how long before somone 'harvested" them?
>
> ann
>
> On 12/28/2021 5:39 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:
> > For me it is not unusual to see clusters of mushrooms on dead and
> > almost dead trees.Seeing fungi on the trunk of a living tree is
> > usually a bad sign.
> > My own record is this picture of honey fungi:
> > https://flic.kr/p/2hvrRRR
> >
> > Henk
> >
> > Op di 28 dec. 2021 om 02:36 schreef David Mann :
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Re: Neighborhood walk

[ann sanfedele]

that trail certainly has lots of potential..  my fave is    
20211226-LRC19566
The opening photo would be but for that stick in the foreground. I 
gather some storm decapitated that tree..


ann


On 12/26/2021 10:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

Yesterday I finally got the results of Friday’s test that told me the reason I 
felt crappy last week wasn’t covid.  Since the rain let up today and I haven’t 
taken any non-documentary photos in about a month I went for a short walk a bit 
South of here (near the heart shaped rock I occasionally post photos of).

I found a rather picturesque glade next to the trail.  I’ll have to go back and 
do a more serious effort of it sometime.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/51778577300/in/album-72177720295528928/


more from the walk here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720295528928

Comments appreciated.


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Re: PESO x2: Mushrooms

[ann sanfedele]

wow - how long before somone 'harvested" them?

ann

On 12/28/2021 5:39 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:

For me it is not unusual to see clusters of mushrooms on dead and
almost dead trees.Seeing fungi on the trunk of a living tree is
usually a bad sign.
My own record is this picture of honey fungi:
https://flic.kr/p/2hvrRRR

Henk

Op di 28 dec. 2021 om 02:36 schreef David Mann :

On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:53 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:


I don’t think I’ve seen a cluster of mushroom growing out of a tree trunk such 
as those in the first pic. Is the tree alive or dead?

I'm not sure whether the tree was still alive. Seeing mushrooms like that on a 
trunk was a surprise to me as well. There were several clusters at different 
heights. The one I photographed was at about my head height.

I've seen very small mushrooms growing from crevices of tree trunks before but 
nothing this big.  We have some impressive bracket fungi on our property, one 
on an old stump and another on a living tree, which is probably going to have 
to be cut down as a result as it'll be weakening the wood.

Cheers,
Dave


Rick


On Dec 26, 2021, at 4:49 AM, David Mann  wrote:

I went running on some trails up the hill today and a couple of mushrooms 
caught my eye. My daughter is really interested in mushrooms so I stopped each 
time to take photos with my phone.

I don't know what type this one is...
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1124/#peso

But I do know a fly agaric when I see one. I had seen the broken-off head of a 
small one on the side of the trail so I looked up the bank to see if there were 
more, and found this.
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1125/#peso

Cheers,
Dave
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Re: PESO x2: Mushrooms

[Henk Terhell]

For me it is not unusual to see clusters of mushrooms on dead and
almost dead trees.Seeing fungi on the trunk of a living tree is
usually a bad sign.
My own record is this picture of honey fungi:
https://flic.kr/p/2hvrRRR

Henk

Op di 28 dec. 2021 om 02:36 schreef David Mann :
>
> On Dec 28, 2021, at 5:53 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:
>
> > I don’t think I’ve seen a cluster of mushroom growing out of a tree trunk 
> > such as those in the first pic. Is the tree alive or dead?
>
> I'm not sure whether the tree was still alive. Seeing mushrooms like that on 
> a trunk was a surprise to me as well. There were several clusters at 
> different heights. The one I photographed was at about my head height.
>
> I've seen very small mushrooms growing from crevices of tree trunks before 
> but nothing this big.  We have some impressive bracket fungi on our property, 
> one on an old stump and another on a living tree, which is probably going to 
> have to be cut down as a result as it'll be weakening the wood.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >> On Dec 26, 2021, at 4:49 AM, David Mann  wrote:
> >>
> >> I went running on some trails up the hill today and a couple of mushrooms 
> >> caught my eye. My daughter is really interested in mushrooms so I stopped 
> >> each time to take photos with my phone.
> >>
> >> I don't know what type this one is...
> >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1124/#peso
> >>
> >> But I do know a fly agaric when I see one. I had seen the broken-off head 
> >> of a small one on the side of the trail so I looked up the bank to see if 
> >> there were more, and found this.
> >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1125/#peso
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dave
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>
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