Saturday afternoon as I was working in the yard, I found a padded yellow envelope sitting on the hood of my truck, and immediately knew what it was: a letter from my friend Phil, who I first met on a rainy Sunday morning many years ago when he was locked behind the gate of the empty lot next to us and I luckily knew the padlock code. Phil, whose real name is not Phil, has lived for more than a decade in an abandoned building not far from here, at the edge of an industrial site near the river. He is a gifted maker who crafts useful objects from the things he finds, and a book lover with whom I have been carrying on an exchange for close to a decade. I made my last drop to him on last year’s freakishly hot Christmas Day,
Fuligo septica is very soft and even mobile, and dries out within a day or so to an orange-y color. I'm thinking this is some kind of polypore that hasn't yet bracketed. We need another photo in a week or two!
yeah, like Michael, my first thought was slime. Aside from, you took some lovely photos of the light and the green
Fungus of the week--perhaps it is the slime mold Fuligo septica, a.k.a. dog vomit slime mold a.k.a. scrambled egg slime?
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/june99.html
Fuligo septica is very soft and even mobile, and dries out within a day or so to an orange-y color. I'm thinking this is some kind of polypore that hasn't yet bracketed. We need another photo in a week or two!
Thank you for your insight, gentleness and compassion for all living things. It is a cringe worthy future to say the very least.