A Little Autumn Color

Mistwalker · Sep 27, 2014

Well...the long drive from Michigan to Tennessee affords me a few opportunities for walks to see what the summer has produced. One one walk I noticed lots of these trees, anyone know what we're looking at?

Yeah, and mother nature is definitely not a segregationist

VANCE · Sep 27, 2014

not sure...but nice pics!

emoney2277 · Sep 27, 2014

I live in Cincinnati, I believe we call those "snot berries". The name comes from the texture when you pop them. I have no idea what they actually are.

Mistwalker · Sep 28, 2014

The first pics are poison sumac trees, the second pics are wild grapes. In natures supermarket edible and toxic can be found on the same shelf

GooberBoober · Sep 28, 2014

Beautiful pictures, love the patina on the knife as well. That isn't a blueback is it?

Mistwalker · Sep 29, 2014

GooberBoober said:
Beautiful pictures, love the patina on the knife as well. That isn't a blueback is it?

Thank you. Nope, not a blueback, it's just a patina I sort of forced through excessive food prep.

It started life looking like this

300Six · Sep 29, 2014

mistwalker said:
The first pics are poison sumac trees, the second pics are wild grapes. In natures supermarket edible and toxic can be found on the same shelf

Suspect that you are correct in your identification. Don't get Poison Sumac up here but it seems to look a darn sight much like Poison Ivy. Leaf shape and the white berries.

GooberBoober · Sep 29, 2014

mistwalker said:
Thank you. Nope, not a blueback, it's just a patina I sort of forced through excessive food prep.

It started life looking like this

That's gorgeous. I've been trying the same with my O1 knife for almost a year now but it doesn't really change colour. Perhaps I clean it to often? I usually just rinse it off & wipe it dry after use.

NUTRAMAC · Sep 29, 2014

Looks like western poison ivy with some wild grape

NUTRAMAC · Sep 29, 2014

mistwalker said:
The first pics are poison sumac trees, the second pics are wild grapes. In natures supermarket edible and toxic can be found on the same shelf

Didn't see where you posted this my reading compression stinks today.
Great pictures of our ever-changing world

Mistwalker · Sep 29, 2014

300Six said:
Suspect that you are correct in your identification. Don't get Poison Sumac up here but it seems to look a darn sight much like Poison Ivy. Leaf shape and the white berries.

Not a lot here in the Tennessee hills either, mostly above and below us. Very similar in appearance as well as structure, and in the same toxicodendron genus

GooberBoober said:
That's gorgeous. I've been trying the same with my O1 knife for almost a year now but it doesn't really change colour. Perhaps I clean it to often? I usually just rinse it off & wipe it dry after use.

Thank you, as much time as I spend in high-moisture / high-humidity environments, I like a good deep patina. I usually just leave it laying on the cutting board coating in the various juices until some time after I have eaten the meal I prepared, then just wash off the residue that was left.

NUTRAMAC said:
Didn't see where you posted this my reading compression stinks today.
Great pictures of our ever-changing world

Sometimes when I am on my phone I will miss a few posts that just don't even show up... Thank you, glad you liked them