Groundskeepers

OK, so the Adirondacks during peak leap peeping season are a sight to behold. Behold the red carpets surrounding Whiteface Mountain on all sides! But it occurred to me that there's something a little odd about focusing on the part of the woods that has finished its work. 

If instead of looking up you look down, you see that the forest community is still busily churning away. Having read a lot recently about how trees communicate and care for each other through mycorrhizal networks and fungi make pretty much everything happen, I saw the true impresarios of the forest surfacing for some R&R.

While most of their work happens beneath the surface, you can get a sense of the vibrant interconnected worlds they generate and support from the sheer variety of settings in which I caught them in the act...