What?

 

When I first spotted this, I thought it was something someone had stuffed into the tree's crevice. Only after looking at it again more closely did I realize that it is yet again another variety (Brefeldia maxima?) of fungus. 

Black Walnut

 

"Juglans nigra, the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central Texas. Wild trees in the upper Ottawa Valley may be an isolated native population or may have derived from planted trees.

Black walnut is an important tree commercially, as the wood is a deep brown color and easily worked. Walnut seeds (nuts) are cultivated for their distinctive and desirable taste. Walnut trees are grown both for lumber and food, and many cultivars have been developed for improved quality wood or nuts." -- Wikipedia

Signs & Wonders

 

Downed Trees

 

 

 

 

Ghosts

 

 

Taskinas Creek Trail, York River State Park

Old Knobby

 

Taskinas Trail, York River State Park

Cirrus

 

 

 

York River State Park 

 

Linking again today with Skywatch Friday.