Mushrooms and Fungi and An Old Apple Tree

Took Bliss for a walk along Piney Creek this  morning. Only found 1 woodcock which I flushed but was amazed at the varieties of mushrooms and fungi growing in that damp environment.

 

 

Bliss happily hunted the briery terrain.

A couple of small apples on the "Mammoth Piney Creek "Apple tree. Badly shaded by bigger trees and very neglected, I pruned it last winter and gathered scion wood from this old tree and now have two grafted trees growing in the nursery. A very edible apple.

A Welcomed Sight

I saw this fella crossing the old lane that leads to the Back40 orchard.

This is the first Box Turtle I've seen in years here on the homestead.  A friend who is into reptiles said it was a male. I was just happy to see it slowly plodding across the lane going about it's daily business.

Delicious

A Myer's Royal Limbertwig. An old southern Appalachian mountain variety. Delicious flavor. One of my first Limbertwig varieties to bear fruit.