Fungi
After many posts about the city architecture, it's time for a different topic.
In the country where I come from we have a lot of rain throughout the year and fungi growing like crazy, especially in autumn.
Small, big, poisonous, and edible. You can find them everywhere even on trees. Once I find them grew in my basement.
Here on prairies in Alberta, Canada we have a very dry climate and I don't see them as much.
But in this past week, we got some rain showers almost every day and nature know how to take the advantage.
The most beautiful are usually the most poisonous.
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Nature is the best architect.
Fresh from yesterday's hike.
We want to be like the two from the first photo one day.
Perfect camouflage.
A lot of meat.
I'm sure that snails will appreciate this.
A different design.
Almost an art.
You might think that we have plenty of them, but half of the photos are from The Elk National Park and when you consider that this is a six year's collection you must admit they're quite rare.
We're definitely not a fungi rich country.
I hope you like my today's selection.
See you tomorrow, my friends.
I am always so jealous of the countries that are rich in mushrooms. Some of the most exotic and beautiful that I have ever seen I have been chastised to not touch because there poisonous. I believe you are right, the prettier they are the more poisonous they become. My grandmother and mother used to pick mushrooms when I was growing up and the variety is little but I know of those mushrooms and having moved out of the area, I no longer trust myself to pick among the mushrooms here. I do not have that confidence or the know-how but I do miss rummaging through the woods and finding them like we have found treasure.
Thank you for a most enjoyable post and for the beauty found in nature.
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You're right. When you move you can't trust the mushrooms anymore.
YES!
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I have always wondered what the "magical" ones look like in their natural state.
For some reason I now feel like adding sautéed mushrooms to my hamburger. Glad to see you guys are still getting good weather. Are you still getting time to ride the bicycle about town? Enjoy your day and don't eat the wrong mushroom!
I only eat those from the store. I'm still biking, yes. When there are no showers and when the road is dry.
The lighting is really "golden hour" and it looks like the mushroom just pushed up from the forest floor!
They're fast indeed. They sprout out immediately after rain.
Wow! What beautiful pictures! We have had a dry summer here and I am having a hard time finding mushrooms this year. It did start raining a few days ago and doesn't plan on stopping for a week or so...so I'm hoping i can get some great pics like yours in a couple weeks! Thank you for sharing!!
Don't miss them.
Can you tell the name of the king who died by poisoning of such fungi ?
Sorry, I miss that day at school when we were learning about that king, hehe.
howdy there @oldtimer! so being in a fungi starved country is a good thing or a bad thing? I can't tell but the photos I know are a good thing!
As long as you have an Italian grocery store close it's OK.
Probably you don't have many down there?
Mushrooms, I mean.
well sir they probably do down around Houston where it's so humid but not in Northern Texas. thank you sir!
I'm impressed... you could even call it funghi envy!
Photographer fungi envy.
I think they're all pretty much useless to the restaurant chef.
Ha ha!
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