Bonus Phot of the Day: Browncap Forest Village

Browncap Village, originally uploaded by JeremyT.

From the notes of Dr. Julius T. Roundbottom:

I returned to the small collection of brown caps after a week of working in my laboratory to discover that a family of moth pixies had made homes of them--or at least, had tasked some other tiny beast to make homes out of it for them. Moth pixies, according to my notes, are noxious pests that delight in uprooting gardens and spreading aphids, which they eat. The addition of chimneys to their homes was a proper shock--it is not in the published literature that moth pixies can wield fire! The discovery immediately set my mind racing.

I collected one of the browncap homes for dissection, much to their consernation, and I received a tiny bite for my trouble. The bite is healing very badly, despite being doused in poultices of my own creation.

To my surprise, the chimneys serve no function and are not actually connected to the inner dwelling--they are decorative in nature only. My theory is that they construct them in a mimicry of the rows of brownstones that line the streets just outside the Park. They are far from intelligent creatures, I believe.

Such wonderful discoveries here. My heart runs wild imaging what more lies in wait for me out there in the brambles.

Edit: here's an updated version of the image.