Fungus among us
posted in Alaska, Garden |While it’s been grey and chilly here for, it seems like, months on end, we haven’t really had any rain to speak of. The past few days, however, have remedied this problem. And suddenly, we have mushrooms again.
So I got out the camera while OmegaDad was planting our new perennial bed (woohoo!) (pictures tomorrow), and started fiddling around with the “macro” setting, which I’d never played with before.
The end result, I must say, is rather nice. Above is the macro–below is the close-up. This little batch of fungi would be almost overwhelmed in the greenery that surrounds us (OmegaDad calls it “the annual chlorophyll orgasm!”); the macro setting makes it pop quite nicely.
If I were really anal, I would correct the color on the macro to match the close-up; the shrooms were actually that lovely peach-orange color. But I also liked the way the macro version looked so much like a flower.
We have one of the red spotty mushrooms out front. I knew we had one, but couldn’t locate it where I thought it was, so didn’t photograph it. Of course, when OmegaDad and I went out for dinner, he spotted it. I will try to get a shot of it tomorrow.
There’s nothing to give spatial context on the shroom above. It is actually about the size of a salad plate, and it is leaning over like that. I assume it was just too top-heavy.
The little dainty above was hiding away. He’s nothing special; about an inch-and-a-half across, white, pretty much “eh”. But the contrast between it and the greenery was just too nice to pass up.
In the meantime, we are enjoying an evening off: OmegaDotter is spending the night at a friend’s house. When I called at 5, she excitedly told me that K. has her very own guitar! And it’s real! It’s not a toy! Whoa.
