THE WOODS IN THE SNOW
Monday, January 31, 2011
Semen Before A Period
IMPS IN THE WOODS? Getting up one morning this year again, looking out at my skylight, I found myself surrounded by the milky whiteness of the fog, in a magical landscape, northern fairytale.
Here in one morning as that, you wonder if people really hesitate fantastic in the woods. outside is below zero, the air is crystalline, light a few flakes of snow flying from a multitude of children and adults busy in bobsled, skiing and snowboarding, with all the eagerness to reach the slopes on foot or by cable car, before easing downstream.
I wrapped up to keep out the bitter cold, I follow the path through the track with my father who acts as a guide. irreverently called, "grattacui "because of the stinging seeds inside, very good when dried and used as herbal tea or red pulp for jam, when they are mature, both for its taste and for the concentration of vitamin 'C' and the brilliant red color, are also used in the decorations of dried flowers.
Next to a balcony, stands a beautiful holly 'Ilex aquifolium L.' with green leaves and its spherical dark berries. E 'is an evergreen shrub, beautiful in every season but that brings us back with its colors alee Christmas decorations. 
Walking on the trail, you notice how cold, snowy on the fence for weeks before, and frost on the grass on the ground, have crystallized snowflakes, and then 
The forest seems to be sleeping, but looking carefully you realize that some plants are alive, like a perfectly bright green ferns. 
Among the species remember the small fern, Polypodium vulgare L. of the family Polypodiaceae, is also called, false licorice for its flavor. It is used in herbal medicine as a natural expectorant. If you are in the woods, you can always pick up a tender bud and chew if you have a sense of thirst, sweetening the mouth. 
What is particularly the case instead of blueberry: the quality of blueberry 'Vaccinium myrtillus,' family 'Ericaceae' completely loses its leaves leaving uncovered the green twigs and twisted bush, while the cranberries 'Vaccinum vitis idea' or 'Vaccinium macrocarpon' keeps intact its leaves, and say that they can be found at the same altitudes and in the same habitat as can be seen from the images. 
Walking in the woods, the little snow crunching beneath his boots, including branches of fir, larch, pine cones, leaves of beech and pine needles, sounds are muffled, no one in the woods today but silence also has a slight sigh. Other years I went into the forest between December and February, but the snow muffled all the white light of snow hid the forest. This winter, allowing a glimpse of the underworld and its inhabitants.
Walking, you see the signs of the path marked by two stripes of white paint and red for those who like walking.
Looking at the path you see little colored balls on the ground left by the players of the fantasy-simulated war, that I collect are small plastic balls hard with the frost that are embedded in the leaves and snow as they were part of the earth. Later my father points out of rodent burrows among the roots of trees, people around the ice crystals were formed by the condensation of the heat that escapes from their bodies.
These holes, I see them for the first time, I had never noticed, before one of the dens, known eaten a chestnut shell, undoubtedly brought on by a squirrel and a hedgehog as a reserves for the winter, in fact, there at that height, there are chestnut trees. 
I always walked this forest without dealing in detail, usually only go for mushrooms, or relax and enjoy the quiet of nature, this time my father showed me and plant names, making me see the difference between a spruce and a white. The red pine has branches with a pinkish needles and darker and thicker. 
The vegetation alive, you come to a dead pine almost completely folded, probably due to a blizzard, with all the exposed roots, it seems incredible that a tree has been uprooted like that, so much the plot of the roots is dense. Among the branches and the bark of the trees there are mosses and lichens, of different shapes and textures, very useful fungaioli that if equipped with a boxcutter without a toothbrush, can help clean up from the ground fungi.
Most are soft to the touch but tough and resilient, more able to fulfill the task ... 
little further on a fir tree must have suffered and now comes with huge hump on the bottom of the trunk as if it were a sculpture, the malformations are like our scars, helps the tree protect against adversity. 
Fir both red and white has a scaly bark and smaller cones closed very long, very good to poke the fire in the fireplace.
Sometimes the vegetation appears soft and supple form of a beech tree, with smooth trunks and white spotted areas that makes him look a bit like birch. On land there are his berries 'beech' that between late September and mid October to be mature, inside contain dried fruit, nuts and similar to the equally tasty, good for fresh produce and which yields an excellent oil. The dead leaves on the ground, while his buds just beginning on the plant, they begin to be noticed for their golden color. Later in an embankment under some trees you can see tufts of heather with even dried flowers of spring now passed. The path that I ended up with a "roccolo", where hunters have made a clearing, and planted on the border of low trees, including some of the rowan tree bird which has red berries in the Birds are greedy. During the hunting season people are hiding in a hut made of wood with small slits from which they aim.
in various places on some poor forest mushroom was certainly frozen for an early frost, check here and there, all showed a 'zolfino perfectly preserved. 
Just below you see a grove of birch bark recognizable from the trunk with white and some black mottling attack their many bare branches tend upwards. 
view of the little snow, I never thought you could see the tracks of a hare, and I excited at the moment to photograph, we see the fine print full of hind legs, and the two front, as if the rabbit had stopped a second to catch your breath or some suspicious noise. 
If in the woods with everything I saw there are also elves does not surprise me, but that day I have not had the opportunity to see some, this does not take away the simple pleasure of my findings, I have filled my heart and made me spend a day serene and full of curiosity! Sometimes it is these moments that enrich the soul, and we are dreaming, we realize how varied and mysterious nature, alive and pulsing around us, instead of going fast for sport, not noticing anything, or stealing for purely selfish ends and disillusionment.
the secret story of the Old Woods Youth Dino Buzzati, published in 1935, is the second novel written by Dino Buzzati. The work is in the form of vaguely allegorical fairy tale.
It was made into a 1993 film directed by Ermanno Olmi.
The film was shot in the mountain areas between Auronzo and the mountain pass of the Three Crosses.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
What Does The Peace Sign Mean Sideways
HYPHOLOMA fasciculata
'Zolfino', FALSE HONEY
a frost early this year has kept this small mushroom, almost as soon as the light dawned. Usually this kind of mushroom lignicolo, is plentiful in family strains Hardwood and conifers, very common in the woods 1200 meters above sea level, and as delicate, resists even in the cold until late November.
'The Hypholoma fasciculata' is commonly called 'Zolfino' , from Latin "sulphureus" , ie sulphide because of the color and smell sulfur that gives off when it collects. Its size and colors can vary greatly from one to another, as in the case of
'pusillum Lange' that is the variety the smaller blades and dense.
young are greenish-yellow, to become ripe, brown hue olivacea and purple, sometimes almost black-gray, very dense and very delicate.
The stem is cylindrical and usually thin hard but in a lighter shade of yellow hat cable, only to maturity and old age, the habitat varies widely, has a height ranging from 5 to 10 cm and a diameter of about 0.5 to 0.8 cm, decorated a veil cortiniforme very light, but visible because of a tendency to reddish spores that are deposited, giving contrast to the coloration of the stem.
Meat like all the fungus is mustard yellow, much lighter than the outside, bitter and unpleasant taste, the smell of sulfur have not recommended his collection. The sample shown is obviously very dark and brittle frozen because of the low temperature, but still you can see the greenish color of blades, the hat allestremità rounded, the stem filled with everything a little more orange,
Although its appearance is attractive, that makes you want to pick it up, especially for a beginner, is not fatal, but in any case is a edible fungus, very toxic and can cause unpleasant gastrointestinal crisis, then it is considered poisonous, and in any case it is not recommended for use in cooking, and fortunately the taste and smell can help us in the choice.
fungaioli These characteristics help to distinguish it from other similar fungi that live nearby, also in their growth 'cespitosa', that is bushy and large families on a tree stump or in adjacent areas.
Among these edible varieties, and in some cases much sought after, remember the kind of 'Armillaria',
'tack' or 'famiola' jargon common, and the 'Equestrian Tricholoma'.
In this other example you can see who was born in a small trunk dead.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
What Ah Rating Should My Battery Be
Tartuffe, bladders or scleroderma?
I picked it gently but I must say that it was so cold that a portion of frozen snow remained attached to the house when I cut!
This fungus is to be found in different habitats from early summer until the middle of winter, the woods in the countryside, in the newly plowed fields or in city parks, bringing to question sul'origine of the species, it looks like it especially for the appearance, many 'blistering', variously seen the amount of variety of the latter, (create
'Lycoperdon' example; 'L. piriformis' , 'L. perlatum' , 'edible' and the like), but part of the family 'sclerodermataceae' .
up among the roots of trees and in ravines, can also vaguely remember truffle Being a fungus that usually found in groups of several specimens, it becomes even weed.
It 's a special mushroom for another curiosity: has a parasite which helps to counteract its expansion, not a vegetable, but a more the fungus' Xerocomus parasiticus' , similar to 'boletus' , which makes the fruiting body sterile. When I was a child I was convinced it was a black truffle because if it is not the young man inside quickly becomes dark and stays firm longer than the blistering that matures lose consistency and explode taking out the spores.
derives its name:
'Scleroderma' from the greek 'skleros' hard and 'derma' skin that is tough and leathery skin, and from the Latin ' citrum' , lemon for the Its most common color. The 'serfdom' that is, the housing is generally spherical or ellipsoidal, sometimes slightly irregular with a hint at the bottom of stem from which branches of small roots. In full maturity also the 'scleroderma' is split on the upper surface almost split in two and leaving the spores that spread in the environment.
As mentioned above the surface is covered with cracks like squamette, pale yellow to a brown color.
Within the fruiting body, that the flesh is white now, then darkens to become mottled gray to black.
has an elastic, slightly chewy, intense aroma, which pulverizes fully ripe, releasing the spores of the same color. E 'considered a poisonous mushroom, because species if consumed when it darkens, in large quantities can cause severe gastrointestinal upset.
Some synonyms: 'Scleroderma aurantiacum sensu Carleton Rea', 'Ramsbottom', 'Scleroderma aurantium sensu auct', 'Scleroderma vulgare Hornem' ...
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Broken Capillaries On Boobs
A THOUGHT FOR THE HOLIDAYS
APPETIZING A GIFT!
Under the parties often do you come to visit friends, and unfortunately not have thought of everything ....
And 'certainly unfortunate to find themselves empty-handed when they are presented with a little thought ! is not always easy, just below the holidays, find a thought like that to your friend and not forced to look for something really special to return, already thinking about becoming a family business!
Here, you're a huge fungaiolo like mine? When collecting mushrooms, dry them? Well, in these situations sometimes you have so many that have accumulated for over a year, if then you are more passionate about the collection and consumption, a little 'what happens to the fishermen, if many of your friends go crazy for a mushroom risotto, instead of immediately distribute to all those in excess because they do not donate them at parties and make these cute little bags when you're short on ideas? 
Prepares always a little 'bag a few before the party, the mushrooms do not go bad and usually are always welcome.
Look transparent bags (and some nice string as in this case, a sprig of pine, an ornament that includes the holiday theme), to show that you have thought of them in those days. One trick is to add the black peppercorns in the bag so they do not form the butterflies, if the recipient does not consume them immediately, then maybe pesiamoli to get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow many can come and give more to those who know appreciate them so much! This year I was in New Year with friends, and to spend time before midnight we took all the gifts of little value, even stupid recycled gifts.
At the end of the evening are put together and start choosing them one by one, with the possibility of rubarceli one another at every turn of waste. I
of my gifts I added a bag with mushrooms covered with a paper covering to hide the content
... Well, the first who opened the mushrooms ... was happy. The catch is that
could be exchanged as soon as all the gifts for my bag!
He made more successful than almost all other items!
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