Vaughn Bell Journal - May 11

May 11:
Some mushrooms laying limp and rotting on the moss but several others have grown up, still smaller. The tiny sprouts in the fern moss have not grown much but everything else is bigger. Some shoots of grass have quickly emerged. In patches of Dicranum and in some of the fern moss, new batches of sporophytes have appeared, they are not as tall yet or as rust-colored as the other ones. The spores, seeking to land on unoccupied ground, will find none in this enclosed space. Some of the moss is perhaps over-saturated with water, a deep dark green. Different species grow better or worse. Cushion moss in one location appears to be filling over with fern moss. In another the Polytrichum, with dark green tree-like sprouts, which was present in only small quantities, is growing more prevalent. Insects are growing large and seeking to escape, but to where? Also some slugs, ants, gnats.