More Plentiful Than Wildflowers

Early this morning, after the sun climbed high enough to light a local forest, I went for an interesting hike. First I challenged ticks with a non-Deet spray. So far, so good - no ticks found. Then I challenged mosquitoes and lost. I had no bug spray and did not dig my net out, so the biters won.

Now let’s discuss the title. On my hike I found a couple of wildflower species that I photographed, but I found far more fungi to point my Nikon at. I will share images below.

Wildflowers:

Fungi - Prepare yourselves… there were many! Many more than there were wildflowers.

This question mark butterfly may have been asking questions as it watched me shooting fungi pictures.