Tag: mushrooms

Image #54 – Violet mushrooms

Image #54The Asheville newspaper had a front page news story about the bumper year for mushrooms in North Carolina.  Lucky me!  And best of all I barely need to leave home. Photographing this lovely Violet-branched Coral mushroom did entail the effort of climbing the hill to my friends’ home and then getting down to the mushroom’s level, which is about 3/4 of an inch high. Check out the acorn in the right-hand corner and you can get an idea of scale.  So delicate and colorful. And so well named because it is very reminiscent of coral.  Just another joy of nature. ☙

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Image #53 – The Sunflower Mushroom

Image #53It seemed this mushroom wanted to be a sunflower — so happy and sunny on a bright sunny morn. ☙

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Image #50 – Blue Chanterelle mushroom

Image #50Okay, I’m not entirely sure I have identified this mushroom properly but it’s close and don’t you just love that name?  Blue Chanterelle … it is evocative of  mystery even though a search for chanterelle reveals nothing more than what it is — “an edible mushroom/fungi.”  What is remarkable about this mushroom is it’s delicacy and vulnerability. In this case it is growing on a bed of moss in a friend’s yard. As we approached and she revealed it to me I had to re-focus not only my eyes but my brain because to me it was nothing more than a bit of detritus on the moss. You can see the moss clearly, looking like ferns in this tightly focused macro shot. The mushroom was about 2.5 inches high and there were several scattered about the area. So delicate and yet so vibrant.  Wonderful to see.☙

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Image #47 – Dinner

Image #47There are many wonderful mushrooms here on Fawn Hill. This little guy, and I do mean little — about 1/4 of an inch, is nestled along the side of the driveway that leads up to the home of my friends Boni & Gail.  It has found a comfortable spot among the moss and it appears to me that it is about to become dinner for these ants. ☙

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Image #31

Image 31Normally we think of mushrooms in soft, mossy forests. But fecundity rules — especially in the summer and these mushrooms are making a bold stand in a seemingly unforgiving landscape. Good luck to them! ☙

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Daily Image #18

Daily Image #18This two-inch mushroom shows the scars of being the meal for many insects before this fly landed to collect his share.  Who could resist such a beautiful color?  Something so deliciously violet must taste good.

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