(This is Dacrymyces chrysospermus, also known as orange jelly or witch's butter. In spite of its otherworldly gelatinous texture and neon colour, it's remarkably good eating, and omnipresent on the North Coast at this time of year.)
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"Que la hoguera en la noche recuerde
la luz de las estrellas fallecidas."
Pablo Neruda
(Translation here.)
On this Christmas Eve in the ninth year of Rusty Ring, we wish all Aeruginosists near and far the most peaceful of holidays.
(Photo courtesy of Michal Klajban and Wikimedia Commmons.)
Here's some festive seasonal pedantry for all my fellow Jesuit-model nerds. It was high time someone cleared this up.
But I'll bet you didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
This is old man's beard (Usnea longissima), a common lichen of the North Pacific rainforest. When conditions are right it drapes the trees in long, fanciful garlands such as these, giving the woods a decidedly fairy tale aspect.
Just in time for Christmas.
Appearing also on My Corner of the World.
