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- A traditional bridge, they becoming rare, concrete is just tougher!
- Stupas and prayer flags near a monastery
- Tibetan farmers cutting their barley with scythes
- Shop keepers with dried Saussurea medusa et al., in Chinglish known as snow lotus
- A meadow surrounded by pine forests above Nyade / Yading.
It was the perfect picnic spot until a rain started. - Asco cluster Nyade
Asco cluster Nyade ed S - A group of Armillaria mushrooms above Yading
- Laetiporus sulpherus var. miniatus
DSC 3015 s - Lhaga holding Laetiporus sulpherus var miniatus
- Suillus cavipes growing in Yading
- Suillus cavipes, a larch symbiont apparently distributed all over the Northern Hemisphere wherever larch trees (Larix sp.) occur.
It is fun meeting old friends in exotic locations., - What a fruiting! But I ahve no idea what this is. I did not take an image of the pores.
- A cool lichen, may be a Lethariella, but that is just a guess...
- Looks to me like Entoloma bloxamii, commonly known as the big blue pinkgill.
- A small Primula common in Nyade / Yading> I wishe di could attach a name!
- Our Sulfur shelf (Laetiporus sulpherus) cooked up.
Never did I have a sulfur shelf so tender that it melted on the tongue! - White-capped River chat or Red start. They love hanging around creeks, but are very shy.
- Coprinopsis atramentaria, the ink cap or Tipplers bane, which is also distributed in Europe and North America
- A tiny orchid seen Nyade
Orchid tiny Nyade S - Wild growing hemp. Tibetans love the seeds of hemp.