Monday in Nature Nov. 14, 2016

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p>Monday Morning Greetings,<br>

It's been a busy week, with little camera time. The woods seem like a blur with color falling to the ground, and that almost empty feeling coming on as the canopy disappears. I hope you're finding some inspiration out there. On a recent walk the only green left was fading thorny bramble. No such fading here, where Monday is full of brilliance and the beauty of nature.</p><div></div>

[cegeiss]

<p>Sometimes, while watching the moon, it pays to turn around and check out the trees to the west. Here's a picture to offset your beautiful yellows and greens, Laura.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Deer running across my back yard. </p><div></div>

[gordonjb]

<p>At my latitude, the trees have shed their leaves some weeks back. <br>

The temperatures remain above seasonal and I am still finding some fresh mushrooms.<br>

I found this tiny mushroom in the leaf litter. I'm guessing it is a Mycena of some sort.</p>

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[Edwin Barkdoll]

<p>Super moon minus 1 day</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Old Buck Take The Lead</strong></p>

<p><a title="Headed For Bed" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5608/30258024964_42fe8553ec_b.jpg" alt="Headed For Bed" width="819" height="1024" /></a></p>

[Doug Obert]

<p>The Stuart mountains, shot from a ridge above my home at sunset last week.</p><div></div>

[sallymack]

<p>Not much color in the last of the very small <em>Archaea</em>. A bit of the orange <em>Archaea</em> is visible through the salt spikes which were excreted to maintain optimum saline concentrations within the cells.</p><div></div>

[ronald_duren]

<p>A Black Squirrel feeding in a tree.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>I was photographing this white pelican and all of a sudden a turkey vulture intruded. The pelican wasn't pleased and drove the vulture away.</p><div></div>

[biomed]

<p>Fallen leaves are a sign of Autumn's departure.</p>

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[Jon Eckman]

<p>Was happy to see a bee and thistle (sounds like an English pub) over the weekend</p><div></div>

[johnfarrar]

<p>Some fantastic pictures above. Gordon - wonderful. To lower the tone - today, a driech morning, so off to the shore.</p><div></div>

[Mary Doo]

<p>Bill and Shun, you caught the action!</p>

<p>Here's a hippo for you.</p><div></div>

[Gup]

<p>Here is a shot of the Grand Canyon a couple of hours after dawn. <br>

I scouted my perch under a canopy of stars the night before and then camped for the night. </p><div></div>

[Miha]

<p>Hi,<br>

if it hadn't been for the Nature Forum I honestly wouldn't care much for mushrooms. Now I 'm much more aware of them, so yesterday I found some in the nearby forrest. It was a cloudy and foggy day with much moisture on the ground and in the air. I don't recognise the species of the mushrooms but what impressed me most was how small the (visual) difference it was between the fallen and rotting leaves and the brown mushrooms. While the photo depicts the chaos on the forrest floor it represents for me the endless circle of life.</p><div></div>

[MarcelRomviel]

<p>The leaves have fallen from this tree</p><div></div>

[Leslie Reid]

<p>It's staying warm (50F) and wet (finally) out here on the coast, and the fungi (and the rest of us) are loving it. Here's a Ramaria (rubella?) from a Sitka spruce stand.</p><div></div>

[katsone]

<p>This Buck caught my eye while waiting for the moonrise yesterday.</p><div></div>

[bnelson]

<p>Got a great shot of Super Moon setting, but there were power lines in front. Oh well.<br>

Great shots today. This is of a hawk from this morning.</p><div></div>

[User_6502147]

<p>Intended as a test for 50/1.8, but....</p><div></div>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>It looks as if the robins are preparing to migrate. I'd never seen them swimming like this before, nor so big, bright and plump. I mistook them at first for something else. Not much of a photograph, since I was really aiming at deer in a different place, but they caught my eye with their unusual behavior. </p>

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[Rick Bortnick]

<p>Golden afternoon light ... and mushrooms</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>A juvenile little blue heron shares a sunken log with a variety of turtles - autumn colors reflected in the waters.</p><div></div>

[kemalriza]

<p>X-T10, 18-55 mm</p><div></div>