We continued down the ravine. However, at this point it did not have the steep walls. So it was very easy going in this wide section.
The ravine had opened wide for a patch of American Beautyberry. A few plants still had berries and droopy leaves!
The shelf fungus had grown around a sharp point at the top of a stump.
A tiny mushroom!
A weird fungus that had mold growing over it.
A Buckeye paused on Jeanne!
A hugging root or was it an old tree with an offshoot branch? It was hard to tell.
The tree did not let the barbwire stop it.
In fact the wire was swallowed by the tree in several places.
An old Common Split Gill (Schizophyllum commune ) – tentatively ID.
Following a branch off the main ravine, we ended up at a pond. A beautiful patch of Gayfeathers (Liatris ) topped the dam in the sun!
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Keep looking!
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
Love the shelf fungus. Looks like a table top.
I agree with Judy – the shelf fungus and stump look like a side table for your ravine “sitting area” LOL. I’m very excited about the Klamath River dams removal – I hope there’s a quick rebound of the salmon migration.
Same thought as Judy. Mary you find such neat things!