A closer look to the forest carpet. A big little word better seen with your nose close to the ground.

If you are not more than 20cm. tall, you are a little forest goblin living under fern leaves, a wild strawberry has the relative size of an melon and a mushroom can be good shelter in case of rain,  then the landscape you will see while having a look at home in your forest could be something like this.

 

Yum! Some delicious, vitamin loaded blueberries that will turn you tongue purple. If they are too high for you to pick, you can jump a bit on that elastic moss carpet covering everything. 

A few steps further you can pick some lichen to seal the cracks around the windows. Lichen is an excellent isolation material used in wooden houses. You can also wear a bunch of it on you head as a wig for a fancy dress party. Or why not putting a bit in your ears if your partner snores?

Oh something for the fireplace! Here we have a bit of birch wood with some mushrooms that you can be dried and milled to light the fire.

And in a higher and dryer area, walking under the pine trees it is already time to pick the first lingonberries. With an acid touch they are great against colds and out of them you can prepare excellent jams and cakes. Once the blueberry season ends there will be millions of these everywhere.

For the number of little mushrooms on top I would say that trunk has been there for a very long time. Pity those ones are not edible. They make anyway a nice picture.

Sometimes I see strange things in the forest understory that I really don’t know what they are. So pale it looks more like a fungus than a plant. Anybody who can identify this please leave a comment.

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  • Ruby Hawk on Aug 19, 2009

    Your walk in the woods sounds tantelizing and your pictures are beautiful.You found all kinds of useful things, too.

  • Lee Ness on Sep 21, 2009

    Very nice piece I do like walks in the woods
    Lee Ness

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