It is August and that means the daylight each day changes quickly.
August through November are the three months of the year where I can't seem to sit still. The weather is changing, the hours of daylight are changing.
I begin to chase the changes in the forest like I do with early spring.
As the heavy growth of gooseberry bushes begin to drop leaves and other plants in the undergrowth begin to drop seeds and wilt, I find moving through parts of the forest easier.
This morning I got a fog notice on the weather app. I knew it would be foggy in the valleys because it cooled off so much overnight. I hoped the fog would drift up through the forest.
Off I went as soon as the sun began to peek through the trees. It was humid but not really foggy.
Our busy road:
On the way back home I took a different way and...
.... found some Indian Pipes
aka Ghost Plants or the Scientific name:
Monotropa Uniflora .
I think these are some of the coolest plants that can be found in a forest.
The sights were pretty amazing as was the light.
I also stopped and took an opportunity to do something that has been on my mind since I got those little dragons.
An idea came to mind when I was looking at my collection of rocks. My son gave me a really cool rock years ago. To me it looked liked a petrified egg.
Silly me. How I do love to play.