Fairy Rings

No new photos today. Kristin and I finished up the remaining soil collection. Now all that remains is a very tiny bit of canopy photo collection for the last plot, processing the soil cores to send off to the analysis labs, ECM collection for my project, and the transplantation of pine seedlings for Jasons work. We walked out to the field site since time was not of the essence and came across a huge fairy ring. Fairy Rings are rings of mushrooms caused by outward growing soil mycelium that, by scientific concensus so far, are reproducing because of ideal environmental factors or a lack of soil nutrients to continue growth. They're certainly amazing and can see why a mystical nomenclature was attributed to them without knowledge of their cause. Biked into town today, got some coffee, and I got smoked by Kristin in cribbage. 3 games, one being a skunk, out of 3 that i lost. Pathetic! It's pretty windy out right now and the waves have been massive for the past 2-3 days. Apparently this is as large as they will get in this area, barring a Tsunami I suppose. Cooked a good pasta dinner and am well sated. Very sleepy at 10 o'clock again, how absurd. G'night.