Sunday, November 07, 2010

Tamarack Larch

The tamarack trees are dropping their needles a little late this year. It hasn't been cold enough I guess. Global warming... I hate it when people say that every time it gets cold, so I thought I'd throw it in. I think we're in for some climate change next week though as they say it will get much colder. Anyway you can see the tamarack needles everywhere in this picture on the forest floor and the three main trees here are tamarack, aka larch.

This is one of my favorite places when I go hunting each fall. This is looking up a great big mountain full of larch trees. One thing about hunting with a camera, is that if the hunting is bad there's always something to take a picture of. This picture looked a lot better on the camera than it does on my computer, but it gives you an idea. I've spent a lot of time here and there's something about this place that keeps calling me back.

There were mushrooms everywhere of all different shapes and colors. This one looks like it would be very good to eat! Good thing I'm not a caveman.. I'd eat this sucker! Someone figured out that it's only cool to eat some of them...Can you imagine the learning curve?

Here's a picture of my campfire. I made a cover with a tarp so I could sit there by the fire in the rain. And it poured down rain! Not a good weekend to be tent camping, but I stayed warm and dry in my old camper.

5 comments:

Jules said...

It looks like a very refreshing weekend... the smell must have been amazing - that mix of all the evergreens and the rains. Wow! And despite it being so wet, you got the campfire you've been craving!

Jules said...

P.S. I love that mushroom photo.....

don said...

I knew you'd like that picture :)

Diane Lowe said...

That mushroom looks like a peach!

I bet that combination of rain and wood fire was heavenly!

don said...

Yep, pretty darn nice.