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Anchorage Daily News calls it "Anchorage's meteorological misery streak" which set a record of 28 days of measurable rain in a row. But the moss and mushrooms are thriving.
Identifying mushrooms, except for the few I know for sure, is always iffy. Even with my Audubon Field Guide. This appears to be a polypore, but that's as precise as I think I can get. There's a penny in the lower right to give you a sense of scale. Maybe we can call this the catcher's mitt mushroom.
This is a concrete step in our yard. The little mushroom in the lower left is the one in the pictures below.
This is a blackish-red russula with a white stem as opposed to the rosy russula which has a pink stem. Someone's been lunching on this one.
This mushroom is past its prime and naturally recycling.
As our front yard raspberry patch goes through a period of serious decline, our backyard raspberries are making a resurgence.
There is something called a cup mushroom, but I think this one is simply old and its cap has curved up as it decays.
And here's a very fine spider web, low to the ground that seems to be capturing more moisture than mosquitoes.
And all over Anchorage the amanitas are popping up and offering some color.
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