A Year in the Forest

We finally got a little rain here, only about 1/10 of an inch but something.  As could be expected, it made the mushrooms pop up also.  I found one I have been watching out for the Deadly Destroying Angel.  If you pick mushrooms to eat like me then you need to be aware of this mushroom.

I have mentioned several times the Beech aphids.  Something is very efficient in eating them.  Almost everyday I find a limb that was covered the day before that is now completely free of aphids.  I cannot imagine that they would just leave enmass like that.  The leaves are starting to turn and fall from the trees.  There are an abundance of bright red and yellow falling leaves right now.  To look at the forest as a whole it is not showing much color yet.