Ryan found us a beautiful place to hike, and Tony and I realized we had hiked here two years ago. Bonnie and Sammie set the pace, and the rest of us definitely lagged behind. The weather was perfect and there were plants and fungi to enjoy. Stasia is really good at finding these treasures, and found a really cool plant called a ghost plant or ghost pipe. It is completely white and is a parasite that steals food from fungus and is often found with beech trees. Beech trees are abundant in this area, and Stasia found more ghost plants in the woods around the Airbnb. I have only seen pictures of these and was so excited to see them in the wild! Because of their parasitic nature, they are really hard to propagate. Liverworts are also fascinating plants that were the very first land plants about 460 million years ago.