Friday: 15 February 2013
We’ve had rain since Sunday afternoon. It’s clearing up now, but we did tuck 1.74 inches into February’s belt. Not the 5 inches I was thinking from the way the models looked late last week, but we’ll go with what we can get.
In other news, what began as a sore throat and cold on Saturday afternoon turned into fever and what I’m convinced was a relatively mild but still annoying case of the flu. I had the shot in December, so this was likely a strain not covered by the flu vaccine cocktail.
 | These lovelies were growing out of a dead loblolly pine two days ago. They’re fuzzy looking, and very very orange. I’m sure I haven’t run across anything like them before, and I can’t seem to peg them in my mushroom guides. I’ll have to check back by there by this afternoon to answer a few taxonomic questions. Well, that didn’t help much. I came away having convinced myself despite true gills and growing on a pine that they were chanterelles (they’re not). Pretty, though! |
In other news, what began as a sore throat and cold on Saturday afternoon turned into fever and what I’m convinced was a relatively mild but still annoying case of the flu. I had the shot in December, so this was likely a strain not covered by the flu vaccine cocktail.
