Some of my favorite images from a mid-December hike along the southern portion of the Glenwood Dunes Trail in the Indiana Dunes National Park. It was a nice cool day with high cloud layer providing uniform illumination. At one point along this trail a Coyote came loping through the woods and down the trail in my direction. Soon as he spotted me he dashed off and back into the woods, too quickly for me to get a pic unfortunately.
Earlier in the week we had a couple of weather fronts move through with sustained high winds. There were a lot of new branches and small trees down. When I see these I cannot help thinking “future mushroom habitat”.
There are not too many fresh mushrooms this time of year, but this log had a fair number of them. The know where a branch used to be almost looks like a birds nest with shrooms for eggs.
Even in mid-December you can always find something green and growing. The moss’s were looking quite vibrant this day.
This is one of the coolest looking shrooms I’ve seen. Looks like a mouth growing up out of the soil.
I like the rodent’s eye view of the forrest floor.
These large mushrooms are going strong well into the year.
When I first saw this piece of bark I thought it was regurgitated fur which you sometimes see along the trails.