The End Of August
I didn’t get out as much as I should have in August. As an excuse, I’ll use sleep deprivation. I’ll do better in September when I will be spending a few days exploring Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. I will, of course, have my camera gear. I’ll devote a blog post to the trip, possibly even writing one each day. We’ll see.
A day at Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area. The light could have been better. This is the best landscape shot of the day. The stream is the Pumphouse ditch. A couple of hundred yards upstream, the ditch starts to actually look like a man-made ditch, straight as an arrow.
This fungi stands out like a shining beacon. It’s large and bright and clinging to a tree trunk where it’s easy to see. I found it on a tree in the Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area.
It is the start of the season when mushrooms are more visible and easier to shoot. These guys are on a trail in Willow River State Park.
This is the Mound Trail where I found the mushrooms.
More mushrooms found on the Mound Trail.
This is a tiny bug, at most 1/8 inch and very delicate. I think it’s a type of fly.
A daddy longlegs, also referred to as a harvestman, an insect found on every continent except Antarctica.
By maintaining a diverse selection of nutrition, they are able to survive climates of high heat, chilling winds, humid climates, and dry areas. They are known to adapt to their environment and possess slight differences according to the geographic location such as coloring, size, and diet.
—Cooper Pest at Cooper Pest Solutions
“I give sunsets five stars”
— John Green, “The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet.”