It’s raining hard here, as we speak. It’s rained in deluges or drizzles since our last fair day, Thursday (April 19), and more rain is predicted for tomorrow. We have severe cabin fever, which probably will force us out into the woods today, if the rain lessens a bit.
We did that in yesterday’s intermittent showers, when the images here were taken. The discomfort was nothing compared to the joyous freedom of walking and smelling the wet woods. There was no green haze from sprouting buds yet. However, the spring-fed streams were laughing uproariously and the mosses were lazy and lush. The fruiting bodies (“conks”) of Red-Belted Polypores (Fomitopsis pinicola) had been resurrected from deadness and were oozing their own liquid drops as rain fell on their caps:
Maybe we’ll go out even if the rain does not lessen. (Brooklin, Maine)