We have gotten lots of rain here. (Not the bad rain that south Texas is enduring.) When it rains in my woods this time of year, it usually means an abundance of mushrooms pushes their heads through the moss. These photos below were taken just a few feet from my back yard in what we pretend is the "lawn." While the weather seems a bit cooler, the ground was wet and muddy and soaked through my jeans while I balanced on my knees to capture these.
Since mushrooms grow well on dead matter you can guess that my lawn is not all that healthy. It used to be woodlands, after all!
Love the pictures of the mushrooms!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteYou could let it go back to nature? LOL
ReplyDeleteLovely fungus. Really. I'm off to shoot a Summer Sale.
I've always been fascinated with mushrooms, probably because of "Journey to the Center of the Earth," a movie with gigantic mushrooms I saw as a kid. Your pictures are beautiful. Thanks for letting me use your picture as a source for painting. If you could sent me the actual photo that would be great. My e-mail is stephen.hayes@comcast.net. Have a terrific weekend.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs. You have a gift for photography.
ReplyDeleteThe last group of mushrooms look like spectators, like what are they looking at.
They were in my herb bed...so perhaps wondering why the pineapple sage was growing over them.
DeleteGreat variety and great photos!
ReplyDeleteOutstanding photos!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fungi!
ReplyDeleteVery cool mushrooms! I am always happy to see such healthy 'shrooms. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat pics! I find mushrooms to be fascinating.
ReplyDeleteLove your images
ReplyDeletemy setting at the edge of the woods
has a lot also.
Like, Linda I find them fascinating also :)
I am impressed by the variety growing in your yard. I know people who harvest wild mushrooms, and I remember doing so with my mother years ago. I wouldn't dare do it on my own. Do you use any of these in cooking?
ReplyDeleteNever harvest wild mushrooms because it truly requires skill. I have a friend who grows two varieties of mushrooms and he has to be careful that wild mushrooms do not sneak into his mushroom garden.
DeleteWe are with you all day. Hugs.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. I always wonder how you know which are the "safe ones"!
ReplyDeletePostcard photos, every one! My son could tell at a glance which ones are edible. I just keep my distance and admire.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. You have quite a variety there.
ReplyDeleteGood job on the pics. It's actually turned fairly dry here just lately.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that many Vietnamese refugees to the United States died from mushrooms. They did not know that some varieties were poison and ate all that they picked. I don't think any mushrooms look very delectable but the right ones do taste wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that. I have read other stories of mishaps with the Vietnamese refugees during that time.
Deletethe yard next to mine produces a fairy ring once or twice a year. I imagine we'll have mushrooms galore when all this rain finally stops.
ReplyDeleteChanterelles are plentiful in my former location, Mendocino. If you know where to look...
ReplyDeleteFascinating photos of the mushrooms -- so delicate-looking.
ReplyDeleteGreat Fungi shots! Like the second ones best
ReplyDeleteA lot of Vietnamese in the Portland , OR area needed liver transplants after eating local mushrooms. Would not dare eat any I found without having an expert look at them.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos, as usual.
Beautiful shots! I love mushrooms, but it is far too dry here to see them right now. I got myself a big book on how to identify them, but no chance to use it yet.
ReplyDeleteHow does that first one look like a chocolate flower?!
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about which shrooms are ok to eat, and which are not.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, what awesome photos, thanks for sharing your talent.