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'seek and you shall find'...find what the name of this species of fungus is, that means. For a couple of weeks now I've been online searching for this 'puppy'...trying to identify it and it's scientific name. All along, I thought this couldn't be Red-belted Polypore 'cause they're supposed to grow on conifer trees. And where I photographed this was NOT anywhere NEAR conifer trees. In fact, I'm sure this is a live oak [tho the name of the tree is live oak, it's dead, and rotting in a swamp]. The more I searched, the more I read, then a certain site had the very same quandary about the fact this fungus is stated to grow on conifer trees only.... and the site's author stated "And it wasn't found on a conifer"!! Well, then, by golly...this too is the Red-belted Polypore. Just viewing it gives me the willies!! Lethal looking, I know. But come to find out after researching all these past days with my 'free' time online, I find they're NOT poisonous; in fact they're medicinal. Well, blow me down!! Okay, I must confess here...I would not - I repeat - I would NOT even think of ingesting this booger!!!





I have a few more photos of the very same and another kind of fungus from the same area...on my photo blog "Colors of the Wind" if you'd like to click on this LINK.



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MONDAY MORSELS


If y'all were here visiting with me Friday, you know that we went to see the movie, Rango, late in the morning. Bah!! Was I kinda disappointed? You betcha!! Oh the animation was great, the computer generated art work, the characters...that was all well and good. But the story itself was so lacking in many places that it became boring in parts. The music was super. There are several places in the show that had me literally laughing out loud, but to me it was way political! Narrated by owls [some of the better characters for me] telling the story of DURango and his quest to find and save DIRT [an old crumbling town in the West]. Thing is, to me anyway, it mixed the modernized version of a town in the West...with the OLD West. It was like --"Whoa, once again Hollywood writers are trying to give us all a subliminal message here instead of all-out fun entertainment." There was even one section, tho 'westernized', that was quite reminiscent of Luke Skywalker's [Star Wars] version of a shootout... I was bummed because of the story line...but still enjoyed it for the character animation and art work. This really wasn't "family entertainment" because of the harsh language in it in certain places...and a child of younger age could really be frightened beyond nightmares of the 'scary' and shady characters. Tho, I think it was intended to be completely comical...it wasn't!!! A good half hour of the movie at the beginning was trying to get us 'in the mood'...and it seemed to take forever for the movie to actually 'take off'!! There is a bit of local trivia associated with this movie. One of the voice-overs of the four owls that narrate the movie....a local voice! A man that is native to our area [San Diego Texas - just a few miles from Corpus Christi] was one of the four. An article interview from him can be read at this LINK. He, along with others, co-wrote some of the songs sung during Rango's adventure. Garcia stated: "Co-writing three feature songs for the feathered foursome was easy". The songs he helped write and sing are: "Welcome Amigo," "The Bank's Been Robbed," and "La Muerte a Llegado"

But, if you go to see the movie, I hope you won't be as disappointed as I. Let me say this....I'm glad we decided to go to the matinee feature that is much less costly for the ticket. I don't feel we wasted too much that way. Oh, and our next movie that is a 'must see' is Matthew McConaughey in Lincoln Lawyer. March 18th opening date.







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