Champignon louche

Ces 2 champignons mon l'air bien louche . Trouvé dans la forêt des Laurentides. Je vais tenter de les identifier

White HDR

A Polypore

Polyporus squamosus

Polyporus squamosus

Father and son

Tinder fungus, fomes fomentarius

1°C, Late November, cold, wet and windy.

Last walk before the snow fill the quiet bush whit the white cold curtain, I'm hunting since the past 3 days. A big, mature red fox. For maybe 6 hours at the time, I move slowly and silently, like a hungry predator whit my only good thrusty weapon a F1.2/ 300mm super zoom mounted on a Canon rebel Xtr. Waiting in the nasty cold for the red-haired animal, I was thinking about our ancestors who set foots here in north America.
without electricity and ours easy way of life. I was thinking how terrible it could be just by not having a simple 0.99$ "BIC Lighter".

Bushcrafting was a dominant and important way of living not so long ago even in the years 1800, people away from towns had no choice but to use the bush and the wild to survive. Also they most importantly had to know how to make and conserve fire.

After a couple hours, I had to get back to civilization before it get too dark. Then only 10 feets from where I was standing I came across whit this ...

fomes fomentarius ou tinder fungus. polypore.

This thing is a mushroom growing on a white birch. The tree will die eventually but before mother nature have a great gift for the person who will remove this hard shell mushroom off the tree. There is so many things to do just whit this.

First slice and cut pieces of it. Once dry I mean very dry it will catch a simple spark from any flint and steel and turn red like an amber and you can use it as the best of all fire starter you can imagine.

You can make big large cuts and hammer them flat before let the pieces dry. It will burn for a very long time Ideal for transporting your source of heat.

The white birch tree who had the hard mushroom growing on it will die for sure due to the parasitic infection it will be a great idea to take most of this precious white bark and make oil from it again its useful for many many others usage. Let dry the whole mushroom then make a tiny hole in the middle. insert a wick, drop some oil you made before in the hole, let the mushroom absorb the oil then you have a natural candle it burns 4 a very long time and very brightly too.

And most surprising is the medicinal usage from this hard mushroom. there is some of the usage and there is real science about this. Traditionally used as a styptic agent, this common mushroom has been demonstrated to have significant anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. Blood-sugar moderator, immuno-boosting, liver tonic. well grind it to powder then drink it in a tea. 

and that knowledge hard learned by a huge number of humans among hundreds and hundreds of years is 

quickly forgotten. 

What if one of these days you have to bug out. Only the people whit knowledge and skills will survive.

Before The Snow

Laval Landscape

Gourmandise

Gourmandise. Comment fera t'il pour avaler ce gros vers sans s'étouffer !

Soudain dans un parking

  

1 CM

Fuite de gaz

Libération d'un gaz puant. 

C'est à première vue dégueulasse cette odeur et voir un aussi gros blob verdâtre bouillonnant.

Mais ces bulles sont-elles générées par les algues ou par un autre phénomène comme de la matière végétale en décomposition. Une fuite de gaz ?? Un tuyau brisé. 

Les bulles semblent venir du fond de cette petite mare d'eau. On dirait que ces algues profitent de ce gaz. 

Araignées de Mars

A peine sortit de l'hiver ces araignées sont déjà actives. 

Carouge à épaulettes - Agelaius phoeniceus

Agelaius phoeniceus

Photographié à Laval avec une Lentille de 300 MM avec un EOS Canon rebel XT

Pique

Le guet, sur fleur de carotte

Alien dance sur fleur de carotte.

Il ne fait que 4 MM de long ce monstre verdâtre. Qui pendant que mon flash se rechargeait, Lui se mit à danser et  me défiait du regard. Bien agripper sur sa possession qu'il semble dominer, une petite fleur de carotte sauvage. Je lui ait promis que s'il se tenait bien. je lui ferai une bonne photo, mais malheur je réalise que j'ai oublier de prendre son nom,

Pic Mineur

Pic Mineur, Downy Woodpecker. 

Picoides pubescens. .

Pic le plus commun dans l’Est de l’Amérique du Nord.

 Photos le 22 Avril 2011. Bois-de-Liesse, Montréal