Bracket Fungi and a Walk

 





Bracket fungi on a dead black beech trunk.

Each is about the size of the loop you make if you touch thumb tip and forefinger.  The trunk is about 14-16" diameter.

A certain Wee White Pirate has developed a taste for lentil soup. I took some out of the fridge to heat for my evening meal and she was suddenly awake, sitting up, pleading ... Wolfed it down.

What self-respecting dog eats lentil soup? How did she know? She ignores most of the other meal smells I generate (paella, stir fries, fritters even).

One side spouting done and a temporary downpipe leading the run-off water away from the building. That will be finished properly when the other side joins it.  We are on another heavy rain warning for the end of this week. Given that my progress is slow I didn't want a half finished job spilling water down one corner of the building- better that it is still spread out all the way along.

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  1. JayCee3 July 2025 at 07:17

    That is an impressive array of fungi. They must love all that rain.

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  2. gz3 July 2025 at 08:00

    That tree is impressively bracketed!
    Lentil soup with bacon?...
    Good thinking re the spouting...stay dry x

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    1. Tigger's Mum3 July 2025 at 09:02

      Do you think she could smell a little bit of bacon in a gallon of lentils, garlic, herbs and veg (and cloves, lots of cloves)?

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  3. Yamini MacLean3 July 2025 at 08:51

    Hari OM
    My word, a fungi mini-forest! Gorgeous. And look at those beautiful eyes. Scully knows what she's about! YAM xx

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    1. Tigger's Mum3 July 2025 at 09:04

      She has strangely pale eyes and it can make her look a bit calculating or sly for some reason.

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    2. jabblog3 July 2025 at 10:29

      I'm delighted to see one bracket fungus - those are truly astonishing, like armour!

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  4. MadSnapper n Beau3 July 2025 at 12:21

    we are sitting here with heavy rain looming, it should be bright and sunny and it dark, really dark, and the rain is starting, they said about 7 inches in some places and I hope its not ours. I love that pirate face, and so happy for her and for you. that fungi is amazing as are the perspective of your photos, it shows how tall and beautiful it is... I have never seen this many at one time on one tree

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  5. northsider 3 July 2025 at 16:18

    One of our dogs (Newfoundland) helps her self to bananas, cold soup or anything left in a pan. She even tries to wash up licking any dirty plates. They are not daft. I think you have got a new four legged friend in Scully.

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    1. Tigger's Mum3 July 2025 at 19:42

      Scully seems to have been raised on dog food and is very cautious of human food - especially banana😅. It took ages to get her to understand the bowl on the floor was her spoonful of porridge. Now she eats roast parsnips, and cooked carrots, and even pears. Improbably undoing years of training🙄

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  6. angela3 July 2025 at 23:59

    Wow. That’s a lot of fungi. I’m sure you have heard about our murder case involving mushrooms.
    Right now all Aussies are staying well away of mushrooms and beef wellington’s

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