{"id":2078,"date":"2011-05-26T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/2011\/05\/26\/5262011-stranger-than-fiction\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T04:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:54:13","slug":"5262011-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"5\/26\/2011: Stranger than Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/Landscape-Wildlife\/Around-Home-2011\/15398200_7SoKi#1300776531_RhxngxS-A-LB\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/Landscape-Wildlife\/Around-Home-2011\/i-RhxngxS\/0\/L\/DSCN3991-L.jpg?resize=700%2C525\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While out looking for Lady Slippers in one of the two places where I know they grow last Saturday, I came across these\u2026growing on a dead birch sapling in the deep forest. Never seen the like, but some research on Google, and a not so inspired guess considering how they look, identified them as Jelly Fungus. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/Landscape-Wildlife\/Around-Home-2011\/15398200_7SoKi#1300775409_CsNjd2w-L-LB\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weiw.lightshedder.com\/Landscape-Wildlife\/Around-Home-2011\/i-CsNjd2w\/1\/L\/DSCN3994-L.jpg?w=904\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly\u2026you just could not make these things up! It is called Witches\u2019 Butter in eastern Europe, and compounds extracted from it have proven effective in stopping the growth of certain cancers in white mice. Stranger and stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Nikon Coolpix P500 in Close Up mode (macro) at 32mm equivalent field of view. 1) f3.7 @ 1\/100th @ ISO 160. 2) 1\/80th. <\/p>\n<p>Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. #2 was cropped from the left for composition. <\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2026and the Lady Slippers were just poking through the ground.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2078\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2078&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2078\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2078&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2078&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While out looking for Lady Slippers in one of the two places where I know they grow last Saturday, I came across these\u2026growing on a dead birch sapling in the deep forest. 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