Mushrooms Are A Nice Treat...

Hello Friend or Visitor,

The World of Mushrooms... It Is Possible To Consider Mushrooms As Being One Of Those Things That Happen In An Endless Array Of Varieties.

Even When Of The Same Kind, Nearly Every Mushroom Will Offer Some Difference To Enthral The Eyes And For Many, To Bring Out Their Cameras To Record The Scenic View Mushrooms Create Where Ever They Choose To Emerge To Delight.....

          Mushrooms can be eaten, used medicinally, dried for later use, and even take one on Inner-Journeys that just may not be the best of ways to indulge in for an Inner-Journey, but, I have read, are used in that way by some Traditional Shamans who know how to. Exception possibly is Alice, from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'. Then of course, there are the Fairy Tale Scenes of Nature, where so often is depicted beautifully illustrated magical ethereal Mushrooms.

        Sadly, some Folk have allergic reactions to Mushrooms, may my photos of them not cause such a response for you.

        Did you know Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym Charles Lutwidge Dodgson used as being the Author of his Books?

        I didn't until I looked up 'Alice In Wonderland's Author so I'd spell Carroll correctly. 

        My Friend Laura from http://forestwalkart.blogspot.com/ has wondrous Mushrooms emerge where she lives, and we who visit, are always awed by the variety of Mushroom photos Laura Posts with the accompanying, more often than not, amusing way Laura describes them.
        With pleasure and permission, I invite you to visit one of Laura's amazing Mushy Posts by clicking on... 'Mushroom Maniac' ... I can assure you, the trip is worth it.

        But to now invite you to take a Visual Journey with my wondrous times with Mushrooms. I'll begin first with an image I have loved since I first saw it appear on my phone.

       With a little help from Windows photo editing, I was able to lift away the darkness and reveal what to me is a Mushroom at the base of a Tree, amid Leaf matter and Plant growth, during February 2009 at about 7.30 in the morning, who had created a beautiful Life Scene....

  
      I'd had the photo printed as an enlargement at the time. It turned out awful. No computer then, but now that I have, and have been able touch it up a little, the results are for me so pleasing, I think I will try again in time.

        There are more Mushroom photos, just....

         When I leave my Rental Home for Town, there's a stretch of Footpath Lawn, where almost in exactly the same spot, out in the open, will grow a huge Mushroom. Usually only one, though occasionally, as did in the following photo, a tiny one will emerge beside the large one. The photo session occurred during March of 2009 at about 10am, the first month of Autumn for me....

        On the left, near 8 o'clock, of that rather perfect circular Mushroom's top, you can see a hint of the tiny Mushy Companion.
        In the next photo, is it's cute little self right beside, and outside the amazing large Companion Mushy's canopy....

         Next is the underside of the beautifully, proud, elegant Mushroom....

         The red glow you can see, is the effect from the Sun's Morning Light filtering through.

         Almost a month later, about the same time of morning... one magnificent Mushroom has become possibly more beautiful....

        The scattering of speckles on the Grass are not dew, I presumed they were the beginnings of shed spores adhering to Grass Blades.

        Staying in April and mid-Autumn for me, while having a wander in my Scrub area around 4pm, the late Sun's Light, filtering through the Trees onto fallen Timber gave the next photo with Mushrooms....

        Then, during the same month, at about 5pm, out in the yard, out in the open, all by its self, in a state of irreparable disarray....

        Still in April 2009, still in mid-Autumn for me, the time is near 1pm... the not too good time for doing photos, but part of the time I find quite perfect for the Sun's high position to radiate beautiful Light through a Tree's Leafy Canopy... and we are at Madill Park to experience some rather lovely Mushrooms happening....

        Still at Madill Park, only now we move into June 2009, and the first part of Winter for me, the time is nearly 5pm, the Sun's Light is not very giving on the occasion with concentrating on becoming Dawn for the Northern Hemisphere at the time, but the Mushrooms were lovely. Though the pictures have not great clarity, the Scenes they created, I feel, are too nice not to share. Imagination can help....

        The same Mushrooms amid their Moist Earthy Terrain...

       And then from underneath with an Ant checking out the Scene....

        The Ant is almost in the centre between the two Mushrooms and their outer edges, just incase you didn't notice her/him. Plus, the photos look heaps better than I thought they would. Am truly very pleased. Such a compliment to one's efforts.

        Zane from htt://zanephotoblog.blogspot.com/ has beautiful Camera equipment, especially in lenses for Macro photography. I've had the pleasure of seeing Ants in such detail that it seems, like Spiders, they may also have eyes, on top but towards the back of their heads.
       I picked with permission one of Zane's Posts showing 'bugs making water-bubbles' (active link), because the first image shows you what I described about an Ant's eyes, plus other interesting bugs making bubbles.

        Leaving the Park and returning to my Scrub area, to arrive in January 2010 and mid-Summer for me, at about 8.30am, I had come across the next beautiful presentation amid Leaf Matter from another rather large Mushroom...

        My then 'Viewty' phone's negative setting did the following rendition of the same Mushroom amid its Leafy Setting....  

        Well I do hope you have enjoyed sharing my Journey with Mushrooms. I know I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing them appear, looking, from my perspective, artistic and lovely. 

Introductory Image if from -

   http://www.animated-gifs.eu

Photos were achieved with my then Lg 5 megapixel phone 'Viewty'.

        My times with Mushrooms have been many. It will be a pleasure to do this again with another selection another time. 

I have done a few other Posts involving Madill Park....

They are included amid the Label... 

Photo Journeys:

... "Flood Waters and a Park - Part 1"... 9 Jan 2011

... "Flood Waters and a Park - Part 2"... 10 Jan 2011
and with the Label...
From Trees With Love:

... "Tree Magic In A Park"... 9 June 2011

If you like Mushroom Stories, 
I also did one earlier this year listed under the Label...
Flowers and Other Nature Bits...
... "A Lavender Mushroom Story" ... 28 March 2011 

Their links are active, just click on their Titles. 

 

With appreciation and good wishes to you

from Magda....