A few shrooms for ya!

Hi everyone! In place of Cactus Monday, I bring you Mushroom Tuesday! LOL. I am so bad...it seems impossible for me to keep up with CM anymore. I worked the weekend too, which made it even harder.

I found these mushrooms that I had seen, on my camera, and wanted to share, as they are such a lovely shade of O-R-A-N-G-E!!! Yeeeeeee!



And as I looked down through my steering wheel yesterday at the end of a hard day...this is what I saw (and see every day as I am out driving for work)...my cherished succulent cross that my friend Mary, over at Pokeberry Patch made for me many moons ago! Lovingly made with skilled hands, carved and colored and waxed. I love the rough twine that hangs it too...isn't it just the best??? Thanks Mary!!! It gives me peace, comfort, and happiness each time I see it!!! It sure brightens up a dirty steering wheel too!!! (EMBARRASED).

Mushroom delight!!!

I have found the motherload of fairy rings! Sadly it is right in my own neighborhood...in a neglected yard. With all of our recent rains, these lovely patches appeared and I knew I had to walk down for a photo and a drawing session!

Little fairy girl...in a mushroom world!

Happy Saturday!
I found this cute little mushroom in my fairy garden just now as I was coming in my front door. I keep the garden on a little table between chairs on my front porch, and my eye fell upon the little shroom that had popped up over night! It was a big surprise for me! Isn't it adorable and with such a great light yellow color! The fairy sleeping on the red mushroom was something I picked up while in Key West a few months ago, and she is a perfect fit for my little world here...

Here are a few more pics of my neglected fairy garden...one of these days it will get an upgrade!!! Look closely and you will see Tinkerbelle sitting in a pink vintage outdoor chair...looks like she came by for a visit with Mr. Frog.

Please excuse some of this lighting as the sun was setting.

Some mushroom growing action!

I came upon this video on YouTube tonight. The IMBED feature was disabled, but you can go HERE
to see it. Turn on your volume! Turns it into a little sci-fi adventure! If it starts and stops as you watch it the first time, when it finishes, watch it again, and it will flow smoothly! After seeing a couple of these time-lapsed photography videos of mushrooms growing, I understand now why I am fascinated with them! ENJOY!

A neighborhood walk...

I took Doozey for a walk, and decided to take the camera, and try and go with a theme! It turned out to be mushrooms and lichen! These first 2 shots are so neat...they caught my eye because they look like stapeliad flowers! Then I realized they are actually mushrooms (I think). They were growing inside a rotting part at the base of a tree. I will do the I.D. on all of these when I can and try and add them to the post later. Are these not the cutest little things you ever saw. I wish there was a way to get them into my fairy garden!!!

And a side shot of them!

And here is a close up of some lovely, quite frilly-looking lichen or fungus on the side of my Moms avacado tree! Looks sort of kale-like!

These are your standard approximately 3.5 inch mushrooms (the 2 largers ones were about this size)...growing in a yard that gets a little too much water in our water-restricted area, if you know what I mean!!! LOL...they are obvious rule benders!!!

This little tan-orange colored one was under a tree, growing in the dirt!

Here is an inch around circle of some sort of white powdery growth growing on the leaf of a palm frond. My neighbor pointed it out to me on one of his trees, where he finds them all the time (interesting...I wonder what it is)...

And that same neighbor pointed out this small mushroom that felt very slimy, in his grass!!! It was down in the grass, so I had to hold the blades open to get the picture! And...NO, this is not all fingers from one hand...I looked at this shot for quite a while...first wondering how one of my nails had gotten so long (I always keep mine cut where you cannot see any white on the tips), and then wondering who can hold their fingers in this sort of fashion (probably impossible), and finally realizing that that top right finger was not mine at all, but my Moms!!! LOL.

And lastly...a cute picture of one of the neighbors trees, with a cute face on the trunk!

And that concludes our interesting walk. I enjoy these things, which I find worrisome on my part...what kind of a person enjoys fungus kind of stuff??? Oh boy! Maybe it is just part of the succulent life!!!