Wet Summer Brings Mushroom Bonanza
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
The constant rain and cloud cover this summer has produced a bonanza growth of mushrooms in our yard. The other day I decided to photograph them and found many old, ugly, grotesquely shaped fungus. The photo above is one of the weirdest pair that emerged. I found every kind of mushroom imaginable, from tiny white ones no more than an inch wide, to these big brownish/orange monsters that are 6-8″ across and equally as tall. Unfortunately, most of them are not edible and some are quite poisonous.
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, landscape painter
