Brightwood's Nature Carnival

There was a carnival in the park once recent morning!  The wildlife and the mushrooms presented their feature performances.  Today while many of the characters were still around, the chipmunks and the squirrels decided to offer a talent show of vocal presentations.  Instead of the usual high pitch voice like sopranos or tenors, the chipmunks were singing in bass or alto tones.  When it came to the squirrels' turns, they first sang in a rock-and-roll style, then followed by imitating dog barking.  Both were quite entertaining.

The sound performance continued when I got to the shore of the large pond near the dam, a flock of geese flew by and presented a special but short choir music.

I then went back to the mushroom exhibition place.  This time I climbed onto the huge trunk of the fallen tree to get a better image of the orange-colored mushrooms on the top of the standing part of the tree.  I also stepped back to take shots of the tree to record the locations of the two clustered mushrooms, one on each side of the base of the tree, and the locations of the tiny and cute mushrooms.  Two mushrooms' faces reminded me of Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the favorite comedians of both my dad and me.

While I was on the two-bridge trail, I saw a fresh cluster of soft mushrooms.  A lanternfly also caught my eye.  Fortunately there was only one, and it was easy to take care of.