For days we had rain, grey sky’s and the temps just dropped down and down.. until frost warnings each night and snow.. SNOW for two days.. we had hail, sleet and rain so thick you could not see and hard biting snow.. Mud so deep that I got stuck and had to have hubby help […]
Spring has come and the Dezbot has had another birthday and she is now at the age that she can start her work training.. there are spring lambs that need grazing and they also need to be rounded up and put back into their stall in the barn. While I will admit that I can […]
We see those fungi everywhere, are they any good for anything?
in a number of my books, they are written with limit medical use but otherwise they are used a tool for artists a lot.
That would be a great job> “what do you do?” “well, I’m a fungus artist :-D” !
you can carve into it http://blog.gessato.com/2013/01/01/mushroom-art-corey-corcorans-fungi-engravings/
or they can be painted http://www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=22933
Wow, love your close ups: )
And fantastic colour in the Snowy Bale shot!
So, if there’s a use for the Birch Fungus you wrote about a while back (can’t remember the name, sorry): perhaps there’s one for this one as well? [It’s on a Sugar Maple, right?]
check the comments already posted for info on the fungus 🙂 and thanks
Is this it?
Lots of uses. http://www.medicalmushrooms.net/fomes-fomentarius/