{"id":1253,"date":"2010-02-20T20:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2010-02-20T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T07:11:52","slug":"mount-tam-spring-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Mount Tam Again &#8211; Spring Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Comments by Andy]<\/p>\n<p>Behind Mt Tam actually (in Marin county, north across the Golden Gate bridge), in the Marin watershed district where mushroom picking is allowed. We found some boletes here last time, but there were not too many mushrooms anymore. I think that other mushroom hunters must&#8217;ve picked the area clean.<\/p>\n<p>We did find lots of inedible mushrooms that make nice photos and a few edible black trumpets, enough for one nice dinner (supplemented with the button mushrooms from Leilani&#8217;s box&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Look at the big wood-ears on the tree next to Leilani&#8217;s hand:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-alm.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-alm.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a closeup:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-treemushroom.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-treemushroom.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some sort of cup fungus:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-cupfungi.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-cupfungi.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all the winter rain and a week of sunshine, everything is green again:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-clearing.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-clearing.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-family.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-family.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A type of elfin saddle:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-helvella-lacunosa.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-helvella-lacunosa.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonja doesn&#8217;t know how this mushroom got so red in photoshop:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-hygrocybe-punicea.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-hygrocybe-punicea.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-leilani.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-leilani.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-lake.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-lake.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first spring flowers, here an Indian Warrior:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-indian-warrior.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-indian-warrior.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Shooting Star:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-shooting-star.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-shooting-star.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And an Iris:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-iris.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-iris.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of cool lichen in these damp woods:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-lichen.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-lichen.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And more funky fungi:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-trametes.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-trametes.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-white-coral.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-white-coral.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/100207-mt-yellow-coral.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/5\/1\/web\/100207-mt-yellow-coral.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Comments by Andy] Behind Mt Tam actually (in Marin county, north across the Golden Gate bridge), in the Marin watershed district where mushroom picking is allowed. 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