Time: 1215-1245
Date: 18 October 2008
Climate: chilly, about 55 degrees, cloudy, windy
Location: Lewis and Clark Campus
I am walking around the Lewis and Clark campus in Portland, Oregon. This school is so pretty because there is so much nature surrounding you. There are little paths that are filled with different species of plants and they look so real and not artificial. Like they weren’t planted there on purpose. I like the feel I get from here because it feels very secluded and peaceful. As I walk along this little path I notice some mushrooms. I haven’t noticed any mushrooms on Willamette’s campus yet, there may be some but I have not personally noticed any. I have seen some across the street in a little park but none yet on campus. These mushrooms are not like any that I have seen before; they may only be native to the west. There were two types of mushrooms, or so I thought. After being able to identify them as Shaggy Mane mushrooms, I discovered that they curl up and become what I thought was a completely different mushroom. I was very interested by this because I thought they were 2 completely different types of mushrooms, but they were in fact, the same. As I look around some more I am reminded of parts of a forest I used to hike in back home. There are no blackberries in this path that I can see and that is surprising because they are so invasive that usually whenever I am walking around in wooded areas, I see them.
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