A few pics of my land

Fall is here and the colors are always inspiring. Things are still very green but the yellows of the goldenrods and the golden rays of the sun make everything a little better. Hope you're starting to see some of the beauty of fall around you!

That's a whole lot of goldenrod you have growing there. Do you harvest any as herbal medicine?

Paddy Mc wrote:. . . a whole lot of goldenrod . . .

Welcome to the garden
What sort of goldenrod is it? Is it Solidago candadensis? That grows like weeds in my garden. But it is a very useful plant in August and the first half of September.

Hi Paddy,

Welcome to Permies..

Nice pics.  Goldenrod makes fine ruminant feed!

Normally, Maine fall images would be full of colorful leaves, but while at my camp this weekend, I saw bunches of these weird mushrooms...anyone know what they are? They look almost furry!

Looks like a Hericium fungus, same family as the lion's mane and icicle mushroom. Most of these are edible, some of them downright delicious. Get a positive ID before you taste anything, of course.

Looks like a fungus from the Ramaria familie, although it's impossible to tell whether it's a rufescens, a krieglsteineri or a gypsea - or any other member from the same family, for that matter. Since there's pine needles on the ground around it in your pic, I'd go for rufescens...

https://www.gbif.org/species/5445936

Now I wish I had cut some in half to see if it was shaped like broccoli on the interior...

Oh Mike, the trees and the goldenrod - beautiful. I always thought goldenrod was a weed until I saw some in a flower arrangement in church and thought I should perhaps change my mind.

Goldenrod is a weed. So is teasel (Dipsacus follonum). But I tolerate them both in the garden. Lot of them.

No such thing as "weeds" - they're all plants and they all have their use. The word "weed" is used for useless plants, but in nature nothing is useless.

Mick Berry wrote:No such thing as "weeds" . . . .

True. And if I tolerate them, they cease to be weeds.

I think September is my favorite month. Some reasons are pictured below! Area is Michigan’s upper peninsula.

Erika Bailey wrote:Normally, Maine fall images would be full of colorful leaves, but while at my camp this weekend, I saw bunches of these weird mushrooms...anyone know what they are? They look almost furry!

Those are either a Ramaria species or Artomyces species

Phil Stevens wrote:Looks like a Hericium fungus, same family as the lion's mane and icicle mushroom. Most of these are edible, some of them downright delicious. Get a positive ID before you taste anything, of course.

Hericium grow from wood so this is likely a Ramaria. They do look similar from a distance though.