#coralroot

It was a 6 mile round trip. I definitely hiked too far today. The return trip was mostly steep downhill which was hard on my bad knee. Started having problems with muscles cramping around my right knee. I'm probably not going to sleep well tonight.

There was one viewpoint along the trail

And I saw some cool mushrooms.

Also saw two different types of coralroot.

Pacific Coralroot

Spotted Coralroot

It was kind of misty most of the day but the sun did come out during the hike back to the parking lot.

I think the next hike might need to be something a little easier.

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"I'm in full bloom."

7/5/2020 Frantically assembling a beehive today. Concrete pad for the hive hasn't cracked, yet. Two days until Surprise Bees.

It has been four years since I last posted about the Leafless Underground Parasitic Orchids. They live entirely underground, pale and strange, except once a year for about a week they reach up into the air to flower and spread.

In these four years we moved to a new country, lived in a one-room apartment in the city where the streetlights come in the window and touch your face at night, and moved to a tiny island. This is our third spring on the island.

A single Leafless Underground Parasitic Orchid has shown up at the new place somehow. It would like me to remind you: the Leafless Underground Parasitic Orchids are not at all totally creepy, they are not listening to you through the floors right now, and you should definitely continue about your oblivious surface business in the shallow rind of air above the silent sea of hungry earth.