Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Nov. 17, 2014

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<p>Greetings,<br>

Do you watch the sunrise? Do you watch it daily, or by chance? Does it take place in the rear view mirror on the way to work? Does your day break with light over water or land? Have you ever followed the changing colors of the sunrise reflected off an 18 wheeler going down the freeway? Maybe it softly illuminates mists off a lake or farmland, or wispy clouds and snow on a high mountain peak. Was there a sunrise that was so beautiful that you simply couldn't go an inch further and had to stop? When the first rays of morning come through the forest canopy do you close your eyes and feel the light across your face, even if it's below freezing? Out in the vast expanse of open terrain or water does it feel like it takes forever for the big orange ball to break the horizon? Maybe those lumens flood the kitchen while you slather bread with your favorite fixins. How many of those times did you have a camera at hand? You're nature photographers, so probably most of the time.</p>

<p>Maybe the best thing about the sunrise is that it will happen again tomorrow. "Here comes the sun........it's all right" You know the song. Happy sunrise, where ever you are on this Monday in Nature.</p><div></div>

<p>I was going to go with a picture of a dead leaf. Somehow that would NOT go with such a happy song. So ... Hummm... Ah, I have some morning sunlight through <em>Tradescantia</em> leaves.</p><div></div>

<p>Yes, I usually see the sun come up most mornings. It always amazes me how the deep blues and black shadows give way to purples and, later, oranges. Unfortunately there wasn't all that much to see the past few days as the sky turned from dark gray to light gray. :-)<br>

My picture comes from yesterday's hike in a nearby State Park. Little sun, a little bit of snow, and plenty of bare trees.</p><div></div>

<p>From the end of last month: a morning stroll through the woods with my Rolleicord III and a roll of Velvia, to catch the last bits of Fall color . . .</p>

<p><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5613/15610569589_734243903a_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="640" /></p>

<p>A little patch of morning light striking a flush of Flammulina velutipes mushroom on an ironwood tree trunk. These Winter Mushrooms or Enokitake as they are know in Japanese cuisine are very hardy and often sprout after the ground is covered in snow as was the case with these mushrooms last week.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>American White Pelican</strong> at White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas. About 80 spend the winter there. They arrive mid-October and depart by mid-April. </p><div></div>

<p>A very good start for this Monday. Laura, your opening salutations bring a smile to my face on Mondays. Thanks. No shooting for me this week. If I could just spell !</p>

<p>a couple of days ago,</p><div></div>

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<p>Gordon, NICE!<br>

richard a, welcome to MiN.<br>

Charles, thanks. You and everyone here help get the week off to a good start.</p>

<p>October morning on Long Beach Island, NJ</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Big Buck Jumps Fence</strong><br>

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<a title="Sturdy Buck Jumps Fence by David Stephens, on Flickr" href=" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5610/15556829510_1723e44606_c.jpg" alt="Sturdy Buck Jumps Fence" width="800" height="534" /></a></p>

<p><a href=" title="Sturdy Buck Jumps Fence by David Stephens, on Flickr"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5610/15556829510_1723e44606_c.jpg" width="800" height="534" alt="Sturdy Buck Jumps Fence"></a></p>

<p>This was taken in a nature sanctuary, really a Colorado state park, bounded by Denver, Aurora, Centennial and Greenwood Village. The building OOF in the background are in the Denver Tech Center, where I live and work. The park has successful herds of white-tail deer, mule deer, around three packs of coyote, hundreds of pheasant, thousands of Canada geese in winter, tens of thousands of voles, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, etc. The habitat is only lightly managed and the deer can actually migrate in and out of the park, following Cherry Creek and other streams that originate in the Rocky Mountains.</p>

<p>This is "urban nature" at its best. I hope that the "hand of man", including that fence" will not disturb too many</p>

<p>Hi All.</p>

<p>I was going to use the attached photo for my Biodiversity lab manual, but was told it looked too much like a phallic symbol and that undergraduates wouldn't be able to handle it. Go figure. Sorry I don't know the species.<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17835477-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="451" /></p>

<p>Unknown Lace Fungi, Conway National Park, Queensland. Pentax K3, 100 f2.8 DAW macro.</p>

 

<p>Well Rick I am coming with a "Dead Leaf".<br>

My title, "And then there was one." <br>

The last leaf hanging on for dear life on this Aspen tree. And the first measurable snow fall in Ashland county Ohio for this season. </p><div></div>

<p> Douglas,</p>

<p>A stinkhorn mushroom Phallus sp.?</p>

<p>Douglas, wow. Looks like a species of Dictyphora. In North America D. duplicata has a white "skirt", but otherwise is superficially similar. Very cool photo.</p>

<p>Looks like Phallus multicolor. Check <a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallus_multicolor.html">here</a></p>

<p>This Golden-billed Saltator provided an enthusiastic wake-up call service at the cabin where I was staying last week, in a small canyon of the argentine Precordillera (San Juan province). Slightly fuzzy as the sun hadn't risen over the cliffs yet to illuminate sufficiently for faster shutter speeds, but it's about as sharp as my own eyes were at that early morning hour!</p>

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<p>Thousands of Canadian geese are migrating through now, on the western shoreline of Lake Michigan. Also, leaves are all gone on our yard's trees.</p><div></div>

<p>shortly after sunrise</p><div></div>

<p>Fading fall colors seems to be a theme this week. With recent snow fall it was difficult to find any leaves remaining on trees, especially ones with a color other than brown. Here are a few of the last remaining leaf hold-outs.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanx Gordon for identifying those mushrooms. We have the same type growing on a poplar stump. Your photo of them is much, much better.</p><div></div>

<p>Fall in Muir Woods</p><div></div>

.....recovering from a forest fire two years prior. Although the knowledge it was a result of the clumsiness of man

and not a fire initiated by nature in its own cycles perhaps makes the happiness of the sunrise a figment of my

own imagination, yes, it's always alright, the earth may take time to do it, but it eventually always covers our

footprints.......<div></div>

<p>Beautiful shots, everyone! Some more fungi from me as well. These were growing from a fallen tree in my local forest. I think they are probably <em>hypholoma fasciculare</em> or Sulfur Tuft.</p><div></div>