On our little trip up the mountain yesterday, I have to admit I saw something I hadn’t noticed before. Tromping through the soft and mushy snowdrifts, we’d come out on bare ground, then another drift, then bare ground, and I noticed something. The ground was covered in a white translucent cover of something. Not snow, not ice, not frost… it initially reminded me of a layer of thistle down laying on the ground.
It wasn’t. It was a film of cobweb-like stuff. No spiders visible that I saw. The only other thing I thought of was like mushroom mycelium, but that should be underground. I also thought of web worms, but they weren’t there either.
So, who can tell me what it is?
Seeds of something. See what grows up out of it.
Kinda reminded me of ‘cat tails’ (?) in Colorado that would ripen into fluff that floated around.
Not seeds…
It is called snow mold here in Minnesota If you look it up you will find how and why it forms
Thanks!
Snow mold!?