One of the many fungus pictures I took yesterday.

#dailyphoto #oregon #fungus

Hiking went well, hammocking did not. Did not get eaten by a bear though.

Off to the woods today to see whether I remember how to hammock camp. And to hope the bears don’t mistake me for a burrito.

MR Separation Fire. 2017, 18,097 acres. South Sister rises above the burned area.

I suspect there would be far less support for the death penalty if the executioner were chosen by lot from the general populace. Same way that there would be fewer meat-eaters if you could only legally eat an animal you slaughtered yourself.

Not-so-wild turkey.

Some species of jelly cone (I think) growing on a burnt log.

Somewhere in China, a rich industrialist is settling down to his great dinner in his McMansion, and explaining to his son, “There are no bad ideas. I built all this by selling twelve-foot-tall skeletons to those crazy Americans.”

WSJ reports today that the Trump Justice Department is investigating whether President Nixon was unfairly targeted by the (mythical) Deep State.

The technical term for this is “bananas.”