Fragments From Floyd

I only partially succeeded in accomplishing the "unnecessary thing" yesterday. In the end, I compromised: it wasn't school work, but it wasn't exactly unnecessary either.

There are three ash trees that died suddenly this spring. They should all be cut down, cut up, and stacked to dry if we're going to get any use from them as firewood later this winter. So yesterday morning, I took the saw down the valley and cleared spicebush, witch hazel and other brush from around the trunks in anticipation of felling them in a week or two. Ann and Tsuga "helped."

And once again, Ann gets the "finder's fee" for the subject of the the photo above. "Fred, have you ever seen anything like this before" she asked, holding up a stick tinted the most un-natural color of deep, rich blue.

It is a fungus of some kind. And no, I had not seen blue suede in the fungal world before.

So, I got some work done and "played" a little with the camera, too. Now. Back to putting together the first test--something totally necessary.