Waterfalls and fungi

I love how Suzanne Simard describes, in exquisite detail, the fungi she studies: "The bell-shaped elf caps of the Mycena were dark brown at the apex and faded into translucent yellow at the margins, revealing gills underneath and a fragile stem. The stipes—stems—were rooted in the furrows of the bark, helping the log decay…. These fungi had evolved a way to break down wood by exuding acids and enzymes and using their cells to absorb the wood’s energy and nutrients."

She encourages us to LOOK in ways I have not looked before; to find the mycelium (until now, only a theory I read about). Whole worlds can grow in an inch or two of forest.

I'm also learning the difference between snow-melt and glacier-melt. This time of year, the waterfalls are gushing madly, fiercely, wildly. The clear water is snow-melt. The aqua-gray water is glacier melt.