Yesterday Thing 2 and I rode the chairlift at the Arizona SnowBowl ski resort to the top of Agassiz Peak for a little high-altitude aspen viewing. At 11,500 feet (3,500 meters) we were just a thousand feet below the pinnacle, with splendid views of the surrounding forests and volcanic mountains. Kendrick Peak can be seen in the bottom photo, and in the far distance, the dark rim of the Grand Canyon, over 60 miles away (95 km).
Please click any photo in the set for full views.
Yesterday Thing 2 and I rode the chairlift at the Arizona SnowBowl ski resort to the top of Agassiz Peak for a little high-altitude aspen viewing. At 11,500 feet (3,500 meters) we were just a thousand feet below the pinnacle, with splendid views of the surrounding forests and volcanic mountains. Kendrick Peak can be seen in the bottom photo, and in the far distance, the dark rim of the Grand Canyon, over 60 miles away (95 km).
Please click any photo in the set for full views.
Wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum).
The fruiting bodies of this organism are sometimes mistaken for puffball mushrooms. The common name is thought to refer to the unpleasant, acrid fluids it produces. Yuck.
At Veit Spring Trail, on Agassiz Peak near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Wolf’s milk slime mold (Lycogala epidendrum).
The fruiting bodies of this organism are sometimes mistaken for puffball mushrooms. The common name is thought to refer to the unpleasant, acrid fluids it produces. Yuck.
At Veit Spring Trail, on Agassiz Peak near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Stemonitis sp. slime mold, Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
The colony of stalked sporangia on the left was about 1.5 cm in diameter.
Stemonitis sp. slime mold, Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
The colony of stalked sporangia on the left was about 1.5 cm in diameter.
Beard lichen (Usnea sp.).
Beard lichen (Usnea sp.).
Beard lichen (Usnea sp.) and unidentified fungus, at Veit Spring Trail on Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Daily monsoon rains arrived here in northern Arizona just over a week ago. The world is noticeably greener. All sorts of desiccated things are plumping up or emerging with startling suddenness. I can barely keep up with so much new and unfamiliar life. For instance, even a crude ID on the fungus in this photo has me stymied. Is is a polypore? A corticioid crust or patch fungus? Help me, please. I’ll be grateful!
Beard lichen (Usnea sp.) and unidentified fungus, at Veit Spring Trail on Agassiz Peak, near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Daily monsoon rains arrived here in northern Arizona just over a week ago. The world is noticeably greener. All sorts of desiccated things are plumping up or emerging with startling suddenness. I can barely keep up with so much new and unfamiliar life. For instance, even a crude ID on the fungus in this photo has me stymied. Is is a polypore? A corticioid crust or patch fungus? Help me, please. I’ll be grateful!
Dithyramb 