The dead tree trunk that keeps on giving.... mushrooms!

Lesson learned with this series of photos? Always wipe the mirror down between shots. I've never shot with a mirror before and most of these were ruined with mirror schmutz. That's okay, won't happen again. If the mushroom isn't toast by tomorrow (it probably will be) I'll get another chance at it.

Pinto Farm Mushrooms

With the rain comes all manner of growth and color. The Purple Sage is beautiful and hard to miss, but if you want to see some really wild color, you've got to get down on your hands and knees and crawl around the wettest, most shaded soil and you'll discover vibrant mushroom poking out of the humus.

I found these mushrooms under some old oaks from which hung the thorniest damned vines. It wasn't easy crawling around under those trees. The vines dragged the ground and had grown through the leaves and into the humus. I had to work for these shroom shots!

The Scissor Tail below was so pretty. We saw her as we were leaving the farm and it made me ache for a telephoto lens. Ah, well.




The Monarchs will be migrating through my area around the 10th to the 22nd of October. I can hardly wait! I know I said it in a recent blog but I'm saying it again, I hope we are closer to the "river" this year. Last year was pathetic.

Shroombala, who knew it was to be found in Brackettville, Texas?

There's more, as equally underwhelming (but much less suggestive), here: http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/Mezmera/Nature/ Hey, I gotta shoot something while I wait for those Monarchs! I scouted them tonight and saw three! They're here! Well, at least a few are, anyway. I intend to go out every night this week to look for them.

I discoverd these growing on a stump in my backyard today. They've probably been there for several days and I just didn't notice. Too bad, they'd have been fun to shoot from the beginning.

Mushroom Daisies, Brackettville Fungal Flora

After much much rain in our normally very water-deprived area, we had mushrooms like I've never seen before popping up all over the place. These looked like daisies!