On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:14:24 -0500, "Lynne"
wrote:

Inside the message I got a big white square with a red 'x' in the corner.
When I opened the attmt. I got a small picture mostly obscured by some
grid-like pattern over the lower 3/4. I can't make it out too well, but I'm
almost certain it's a slime mold (not quite a fungus, but more of a
fungus-like "animal"). Most of its life is spent hidden in rotted wood or
leaf mold or manure, then when it's time to reproduce it migrates some
distance (over mulch, plants, logs, even up trees) to give itself a better
position to disperse its spores. It doesn't harm the tree.

Used to live in any un-trodden upon area of the floor in the house we
lived in briefly in Yamhill, Oregon USA, and it lived under the bed in
a house in Boise. The common denominator-no floor insulation. The
house in Boise also had no wall insulation so that black "dirt" I
scrubbed off the wall when I moved in and then painted .. just came
back .. 'twas mildew, which then colonized my couch and anything else
that touched the wall. Funny thing.. they moved that and neighboring
house to the *mountains* in all their uninsulatedness. LOL

Janice

"joevan" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:15:53 -0400, Isobar wrote:

See if you can see this one.
joevan