First Chants

If you believe some people, the Chanterelle musrooms are generated by lightining, and they do appear in mid july as the summer thunder storms roll in, and that happened, so I ducked down to Sisters Gulf to have a look ...first greeting the sisters: the sisters being two trees, that have come together and melded a yard or so above the ground, so they stand as one on two feet, and they hold the ground, mother it, rather than walking away as the two feet might make possible; she is the mother tree and we have to greet her in the right mind....and attitude; speaking or singing or even dancing to her is acceptable, but PLEASE do no hug the tree, or take selfies. Have some respect, and listen. Do you see the sister faces:? Look but don't stare. What she tells me is beware the Aminita Pantherina below, and of course, there it was and I am not sure why it is named Panther, but I beware. And on and not so far, practically also below the sisters' skirts the a trail of baby chanterells fit size for fairys, and I follow them to the yawning gulf and there below on a steep, and maybe slibbery slope, a royal flush of fully formed Chantreels, and it looks like a tough retreival, so we will have to lower a man down in a hand basket, and I didn't have a hand basket so I used this bag, and no man, but this stick, and I lowered away and....well you can see what happened, but everybody made it home for dinner, and Holy Cow ! THE SHRIMP BOATS HAD COME IN. There'll be dancing tonight.

Priya the Glum Reapeer

Orchid Turtle

STOMACH THIS

You may not have the stomach for this, but it’s too late now. I once had a captive sparrow Hawk that I fed on mice the cats brought in, and he ate everything but the gall bladders. Here, now, one of my cats ate a rabbit, but didn’;t have the gaul to eat the stomach.