autumn air ~

I don't know if the air changes that much where you live with the oncoming of autumn; but it sure does here!  I think that is one of the major reasons I love the fall season the best.  It just seems to trigger all your senses.

 ~ barberry ~

~ staghorn sumac ~

I love the smell of the air in the fall ~ the leaves, the grass, the peat moss swamp ...

I love the smell of wood.  I love the smell of the woods.

I followed the guys out yesterday as they took the tractor and jammer out to haul in some firewood logs.

While they were busy cutting up wood ... I walked around to see how many different kinds of mushrooms I could see... and smell.  I usually smell them before I see them.  I think I would of made a good hound dog 'cuz I sure do have a good sniffer on me.

~ a mushroom with pores ... I think it's a Hydnum Imbricatum ... which in Latin means covered with tiles.

~ a gilled mushroom ... possibly from the Russula family?

~ puff ball family ...

~ shelf mushrooms ...

Pholiota Adiposa??? or Agaricus Augustus ~ the Prince???

~ more shelves ...

~ Honey ...

... more puffs

??? maybe Club Foots ???

~ (above) the very poisonous Amanita Muscaria ... but oh so pretty.

~ ???? ~

Now if I only knew how many of those ~ and which kinds were the safe ones to eat!

That's why we planted the mushrooms we did ... so there would be no more wondering if's :)

  I still can't get over the size of these Wine Caps! 

~ white birch ... yellow birch ~

pretty pumpkins by the steps ... 

... and the smell of freshly blanched turnips ready for the freezer.  Now there's a smell you don't get every day!  

Until next time ...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel