The day had started out warm and overcast and I put on a pair of shorts. Strange weather for November. By afternoon, it had turned quite chilly so I assumed that my friend who was coming for our nature journaling session would want to draw from some collected specimens inside with a warm cup of tea, so I hiked into the forest and gathered a few things. When she arrived, she was determined that we should work outside because she wanted to capture in watercolors the leaves at their peak of autumn color. I changed and put on a coat and scarf and filled my insulated cup with chai.
I set about recreating the scene of a log covered with Turkey Tail Mushrooms that I had just gathered. The Latin name is trametes versicolor. There have been major clinical trials confirming its healing and immune modulating properties. Our forest seems to be a Turkey Tail factory. They are scattered randomly all over on fallen logs and stumps.
I wish I had gotten pictures of her beautiful paintings, but as the late afternoon got dim and misty, she suggested that it was time to go inside and have a nice glass of wine and some snacks, and she left them outside to dry. It was a bit dark to take a good photo of them. We spent the next hour or so talking about fun esoteric topics and sipping our wine...my kind of afternoon.
I wish you could join us next time. I’m sure that with the fun Steemit artists, musicians and poets I’ve met on here that we could have some amazing conversations and solve the problems of the world...or just have a fun time.
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