According to my mushroom book, slime moulds move like an animal but reproduce like a fungus so they are hard to classify in the regular scheme of classifications.
(Beorge Barron's Mushrooms of Ontario.)
If you are looking for some, have a look at a rain soaked, well rotted log.
I used new software to stitch together four or five iPhone photos to make this image. Water levels are low in northern Ontario due to lack of snow last winter. I've not seen this little water below the dam before.
This is the Smooth Rock Falls dam across the Mattagami River. Smooth Rock Falls is the home town of Fleur-Ange.
Sorry, no close up this time. The wind was blowing and I did not want to get down in the poison ivy patch with all the moving leaves. Like many other plants, the ivy is blooming early this year. I almost missed it.
I quite liked the shape of the fence repair at RBG's Arboretum so I took the photo and then erased the fence and vegetation. The repairs were made with the plastic tabs that are used for closing garbage bags at times or for attaching cables to bicycles or timing chips to shoes in road races.
Part of spring time rituals down by the Grand River. Turtles come up to the rail trail and lay eggs and then raccoons dig them up and eat them. I wonder how many turtle nests go unfound.
