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The world’s most dejected mushroom
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Fungus is fun. I’ve always found mushrooms in the wild kind of neat, but Brugger
is an honest-to-god mushroom nut. She enjoys photographing them and then making
watercolor & ink paintings or mixed-media images of them. These days,
whenever I go out geocaching and come upon any striking examples of ye fungus, I
make sure I take a few photos of them and send them along her way. This year,
the late summer/early fall mushrooms have been plentiful and, in some instances,
remarkable in shape, size, and color. As I have photographed these for Ms. B., I
have found myself oddly enamored of them as well.
Yesterday at
Piedmont Environmental Center
in
Jamestown, on a caching outing with friends
Old Robgso (a.k.a.
Old Rob) and Ms.
Fishdownthestair (a.k.a.
Natalie), I happened upon what was
probably the hugest examples of fungus I have ever encountered. Big, big
clusters around a huge tree, each cluster as big or bigger than three or four
dinner plates. I know nothing of mushroom types or which ones are edible (so I
eat none of them); only that they can be remarkably photogenic. I am including
a few shots here. You try not to eat these. Very bad.
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The Fungi From Yuggoth, perhaps?
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More Yuggothians!
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Happy mushrooms! No sign of dejection whatsoever.
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More happy little dudes
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A mini-mushroom forest
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A pretty parasol!
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L: There's a nose on that tree! R: Little dudes wearing floppy hats
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It’s another Tequila Sunrise
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Amanita is the name they call her.
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Ma & Pa Shroomie with the young'uns
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