November 17, 2024

Ever since I learned about slime molds at school (elementary? junior high?) and my class went searching for them, I’ve wanted to learn more about and observe them in their different forms. I don’t have much opportunity to see them, and I don’t remember where to look or what to look for. This presentation solved that. Unfortunately, I was distracted from most of it by expected phone calls from the maintenance technician I’d called earlier to fix a plumbing problem, but I got the gist. The best part, however, was getting outside, crossing the stream that runs through Sagawau Canyon, and along with the group looking for and finding slime mold fruiting bodies. I managed to take a non-blurry photo of only one, however.

Afterward, we took the pleasant drive down hilly Wolf Road toward Pulaski and Wolf Road Woods, where a coyote crossed the road in front of us at the top of one of the hills (the first?). I didn’t get a photo and put the phone down. A second one crossed of course. No photo of that one either, nor of the one J spotted before I saw what I thought was the first crossing. It’s always a little magical seeing coyotes. Even without photographic evidence/proof.

(The bathroom sign is from Ashbary Coffee House.)

Slime molds at Sagawau Environmental Learning Center

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