9.22.26 McKinley Park, Chicago, IL (I)

 


Lots of lichen

So cool

Look at those cool disks

Amazing

It look extraterrestrial, despite being some of the most common and widespread species on the planet

Wow

Cool with the silvery bark

Incredible

Beautiful

Fascinating

Rosette lichens

Rosette and candleflame

Lichen-covered sitck

Lichen, Milk-white Toothed Polypore (white patches), and mycelium (white strands)

Milk-white Toothed Polypore

Milk-white Toothed Polypore being more beige than milk-white (or it's the color of fermented milk)

Milk-white Toothed Polypore

Fungus Gnat maggot

Or some other creature

Giraffe Spots fungus

More giraffe spots

Lichen and giraffe spots

Narrow-headed Marsh Fly

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Eastern Red Bat!!!

This cutie has been sleeping on Honey Locust compound leaves pretty much at the same exact same spot.

Eastern Gray Squirrel

Fungus or slime mold

Lump of root-rich soil on one of the small islands at McKinley Park

Landscape, with the tower at S Damen Ave. and W Pershing Rd.

Sky


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