|
||||
|
Take it from this iguana, or from the red and ready labios de mujer: Phyte Club isn’t morphing into a blog about Costa Rica. Plant-wise, I’m not even that in to the tropics. However, I did just spend the first couple weeks of December tromping the country’s slippery trails, which necessitates at least a [...]  There are lichen that grow on rocks, organically painting their hard surfaces with a spectrum from fluorescent split pea to brick orange. Others are epiphytes, growing on branches and twigs and making them even more textured and green. Then there are some that colonize the top of a Volkswagen bus. Yep, my daddy’s 1971 beat-up ride is [...] That's the spirit: horse It’d been awhile. The last “ENVIRONMETALIST” odyssey had been way back in April, teaming the Big Four in Indio with a smattering of unofficial wildflower hunts. When, almost half a year later, the opportunity arose to be the merch bitch for Mendozza on their tour to support their new, [...] Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886. Imagine eating a bowl of Cherrios and frying balls as though you’d dropped a half dozen hits of Orange Sunshine. Then murdering 20 people you know, leaving eight others to die, and incarcerating scores of women and men. Talk about a bummer trip. According to a widely [...] The John Muir Trail is a very sweet place. So sweet that….. …..for once my botanizing was superseded by being. (Yikes, I know. I’m going to try my hardest not to do it again.) As such, I didn’t take very many photos. And since a field guide would be extraneous weight which would mean less [...] pooting putridity: compare to 3/4 inch-long redwood cone on left for an idea of size I came across my third stinkhorn (species unknown, Order: Phallales) of the season, initially thinking from the corner of my eye it was a doggie chew-toy rather than a very bizarre mushroom . Before last January, I’d only [...] Not only did I encounter fungus as it faded back into the earth on my winter solstice walk (see previous post) but, as I penetrated deeper into the woods at the top of East-West Ranch (Cambria, CA), there were plenty of fresh mushroom jewels still standing in all their otherworldliness. By this time, my [...] |
||||
|
Copyright © 2013 Phyteclub.org - All Rights Reserved |
||||
