Told you it was mushroom season! Here, in no particular order, are a handful of "mushroom-shaped" mushrooms from Tyee Spit, between the rains.
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Almost orange. |
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Pale tan/white. These ones all looked wet, even in dry weeds. |
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Dark brown. |
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With wings! |
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Caramel cream, slightly domed. A slug couldn't resist taking a nibble. |
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These flat, brown ones tend to split at the edges, and look like flowers in the moss. |
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Another three. One still whole, one "flowering", one totally deliquesced. |
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Tiny buttons |
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Looks like foamed milk on coffee. |
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A solid-looking specimen, growing in the shade of a cedar. |
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Tiny cones, in the duff under pines. Can you find the springtail here? |
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Fragile |
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And one of the large, flat ones, upended. |
Passers-by, seeing me looking at mushrooms, often stop to warn me; "You know some of these are poisonous, don't you?" "How do you know which ones are safe to eat?"
As if I were looking for a meal; the only proper reason to look for mushrooms. No. I look at mushrooms because they're beautiful. And amazing; such strength in such fragility!
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