Having slept in late, in no rush for today, I share brunch with you under the tarp, during light rain, on a beautiful bed of feather moss, and talk about camping stuff. Brunch first course is OvaEasy eggs, and second course is hot cereal, with a lot of hot coffee (instant coffee...ya I know).
Feather moss is a multi-species group of terrestrial mosses that form everywhere on the Boreal Forest floor under a pine and spruce tree canopy. Pine and spruce needles are acidic, and provide the acidic conditions that favour feathermoss dominance over the herbs and grasses/sedges. If the tree canopy was poplar and birch, that leaf litter is slightly alkaline, and the herbs would dominate over the feather mosses. Me, I prefer the pine and spruce forests, and the feather moss forest floors.
Link for research to get you started: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather...
(Conservation note: There are no earthworms here. All earthworms in Canada are introduced exotics, and invasive, and are spreading. Earthworms eat and destroy feather mosses and other native forest floor plant communities, churn the soil, destroy the mycorrhizal fungi that connect all native plant roots here, eat layers of organic matter, and ultimately change the ecology of our forests and wildlife here. You can do your part to prevent invasion of exotic earthworms. Please don't bring worms for fishing bait here, or any live bait - they escape, establish, and then invade the forest soils, destroying our native forests.)
For the Trangia fans, you will note that I added a loop of thin wire onto the simmer ring tab. This allows the use of the lifter stick to avoid getting burned by the hot simmer ring or flames inside the burner stand.
I always get questions about my custom pot set: Pots are Evernew Titanium "deep" model. 1.6L and 2.0L. These nest. (I don't think they make the 2.0L deep anymore). I drilled and riveted on two offset aluminum tabs on each pot to bend around the outside lip of the pots so that the lids still fit, and drilled those tabs to wire on bail handles.
"TexMex" seasoning from Club House brand.
Day 2 of a planned week-long solo canoe trip, Boreal Forest, Northwestern Ontario, mid-June, 2019.
Crustacean image credits:
Daphnia:
Attribution: Photo: Paul Hebert. [Creative Commons BY 2.5 (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)]
Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Cyclops:
Creator: U.S. Government, EPA
Copyright: Public domain.
Location: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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