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   too dry for chanterelles
Tuesday, July 2 2024
This afternoon I took a bag with me when I walked the dogs in case there were more chanterelles to gather along the Chamomile Headwaters Trail. This time Neville came with us, so I took a detour to the part of the swamp running just east of the Farm Road that still had standing water in it so Neville could wallow get himself cool before the walk. He did an impressive simulation of a hippo, completely soaking himself head-to-toe. Unfortunately, when I went to all the known chanterelle patches, I found nothing but one half-eaten chanterelle with a slug on it trying to eat the rest. I took it anyway; sorry slug! I then went off-trail west of the Chamomile Headwaters Trail checking the lowlands near a ridge (as that seems to be a typical chanterelle habitat), but it was evidently too dry for them to fruit.
I lost the dogs before finding my way across a wide swath of trackless forest looking for the Stick Trail. They stayed out well after I got home, though eventually they returned. Meanwhile Gretchen had gone to Chris & Kirsti's pool out on Zena Road. Then she went to teach her last poety class at Coxsackie, a prison so bad for programs that Gretchen will never return again. I spoiled my self by taking my second bath in two days, and the lack of heat in the water suggested I needed to put more fluid in the solar heating system.


Neville enjoying the swamp just east of the Farm Road. Click to enlarge.


There are a lot of frogs in this water. Click to enlarge.


He got completely under the water briefly. Click to enlarge.


Now Neville is kind of muddy. Click to enlarge.


A bluestone cliff at the edge of an escarpment a couple hundred feet east of the second highest point in our USGS quadrangle. (41.9248N, 74.1040W is the approximate location of this photo.) Click to enlarge.


Some kind of unusual forest grass is unusally lush near the north end of the Stick Trail near our house. [It might be Japanese stiltgrass, in which case it is an invasive species.] Click to enlarge.


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