03/01/25

 It's March already!  The year is moving along quite quickly so looking forward to real spring.  We have been having much warmer weather but there is still the chance for snow at some point.  I was looking through my photos for another image and found this one that I had never shared.  These are some very small mushrooms that I found growing in the yard one morning.  I liked the ridged or frilled caps on them and I believe these are called Inky Cap Mushrooms.

8/13/22

 I have never seen fungus/fungi or mushrooms like this before.  They were growing between the bark of this log.  It's rare to see red ones for me as well and when I do they are usually very small.  I thought these were neat so had to share.  😀

7/30/22

 When I was in Minnesota there was a tree near where I was working with the large scale train that had quite an impressive fungus on it.  I took this image with my phone of it.  It was fairly large and there were several groups of these.  I had never seen one so large and yellow like this before.

2/12/22

 I captured these lovely mushrooms last year when we had some moisture.  We have had a drought ever since.  The pond in town is so low, I don't remember seeing it that bad but I imagine it was at some point.  I find mushrooms interesting to capture due to their textures.

10/23/21

 We had some mushrooms in the yard recently.  It was a surprising find because it has been very dry since the first week of September.  This is a 4 image focus stack and then I played a bit with the general look of the image as well.

8/15/20

 We had a rainy end of July and then August started out cool and a bit humid and that really made the mushrooms pop up around the area.  I think mushrooms lend themselves well to a monochrome treatment to really bring out the detail in them.  I finally found out what these type are as well, they are Green Spored Lepiota mushrooms.  This is a 2 image focus stack to get all of them in focus.

5/19/20

We had a fair amount of moisture and then some cool humid days.  These are mushrooms that were growing in among some bark and wood from a tree that had died.  Several large groups of them popped up.  I found these rather photogenic.

12/14 19

This is another image of the interesting fungus I saw growing on a tree out on Konza Prairie in early October.  We had just had a significant rain.  A friend helped me ID it.  We think it is Gilled Polypore (trametes betulina) .  I like the frills it has on the underside.

11/22/19

It's Friday and Fridays are Bokehlicious!  I have never really thought about a mushroom photo as being that beautiful but I really liked how this one turned out.  I captured this on a hike at Konza Prairie in early October.  I am not sure what kind this is but it has neat frills on the bottom and was a bit ruffly.  The bokeh really set it off in my opinion. 

9/14/19

Having a Palindrome weekend as well.  😃  Sharing a macro shot of some mushrooms by my pond one day a while back.  I was surprised we didn't have a lot more of them as wet as it had been.  This is actually a phone image that came out rather well.

8/25/18

With the good amount of rain we got the other day, it made the mushrooms quite happy and they are popping up everywhere.  I captured these in my backyard and thought they reminded me of a family, dad mom and kid.  I titled this one Shroom Family Outing.  😀

5/26/18

Sharing some tiny little mushrooms I captured a while back.  If they were an inch tall, that was a lot.  All they needed was a tiny toad.  

4/28/18

This is a group of mushrooms I captured in the backyard after a significant rain last summer.  Not sure if we will see these this year with the little amounts of rain we are getting.  These types of mushrooms start out in the shape of balls and flatten out as they age so these were captured about mid-life. They can get fairly large too, about 6 inches or more across.

3/17/18

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Today's image is a 2 image focus stack of some mushrooms that were growing in the backyard last year when we used to get rain.  They are surrounded by nice green grass so my green for today.  😁

10/28/17

Posting late today doing steamy stuff on a very chilly day.  This was taken on a nice warm day in August after a rain.  A large group of these large 'shrooms popped up in the backyard.

8/18/17

So we have been having a bit of rain and some cool-ish mornings so it has, apparently, been the type of weather that Fungi likes.  We had an explosion of mushrooms in the backyard in an area they seem to like.  I liked this shot for the bokeh that the line of them created.  Not sure what type they are but they are fairly common in this area as I saw them popped up in several yards.

2/4/17

Well, looks like with our warm weather we get wind too, typical.  I was looking through older images this morning and found this mushroom that I had shot back in August.  We were having some nice rainy weather this summer that produced some great mushrooms that were fairly large as well.  I thought this one lent itself well to a monochrome treatment.

9/3/16

Posting late and maybe not on the correct day due to a terrible internet connection.  We have been getting so much rain lately that the mushrooms are popping up.  These are 3 flat top ones that I captured in the backyard.

3/26/16

Posting a bit late today as I was busy and then my computer did not want to wake up.  Guess it was lazy.  Anyway, this is a cool fungus I saw out in PA.  Actually the hubster spotted it first.  It was really this bright yellow looking, I did not do anything to it.  It was clinging to a broken branch of a tree lying on the ground.

12/19/15

Going to be a beautiful day today!  I just hope it's not winter in March.  This is an image I got earlier this year when we were having a good amount of rain.  Mushrooms were popping up all over in people's yards.  I had some but not as nice as this pair.  Some of the ones I saw were huge like these two.  They had to be at least 5 inches across each at least.  I decided to process them in a sepia tone and liked the result.