The last week’s rain and gloomy skies have yielded a bounty of mushrooms in the forest all around our home. They are of every size, shape, and color, some rising a foot off the ground and many the size of the head of a pin. They’re yellow, red, green, orange, brown, white, blue and black. I took nearly 300 photographs of them yesterday. They’re really amazing to look at. Some day I’ll learn to identify mushrooms. Many of those that I photographed yesterday withered in the sunshine today; only the shaded survived.
I’ve previously photographed fungus growing along the VPI Mall in Blacksburg and next to our house in 2005.
I’ve noticed the mushrooms pop up, too, and have been a little scared that my puppy is going to chow down on something poisonous if I don’t drag him away from them.
I thought I’d share for your future mushroom hunting excursions.
I had a Botany professor who used to joke that there aren’t too many old, graying wild mushroom hunters around.