My mom loves investigating mushrooms. It was rather funny to see her telling people about or showing them mushrooms a couple of times, and seeing their eyes glazing over. My children’s eyes did not glaze over! They were most enthusiastic partners in the Great Mushroom Investigation at two county parks that we visited. I allowed my girls to borrow my camera, and ended up with at least a hundred pictures of fungi, most of which I didn’t keep. I’ll post our other pictures from those parks in separate posts; this one will just be mushroom pictures, so if you are the kind of person whose eyes glaze over, just skip this post.
Isn’t our Creator’s imagination amazing! What a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, just in two small county parks in Western Michigan. (Before you mention it, Mom, I know that one picture likely shows slime mold rather than a mushroom. I just thought this was the most logical place to put that picture.) Now, I’m hoping that we can find a white-spotted red toadstool while Mom is here in the summer, because she’s never seen one in person. I’m afraid that will be the wrong time of year for them, though.
Well, you got me; I did not pick out one as a slime mole, but now that you mention it, maybe the purplish one? I was much happier and more confident about my fungi before I found out some could be such a thing! Now I want to go looking with someone who knows what they are talking about so I can find out for sure what they look like! Of course, the Dog Vomit one I saw at my house a couple of years ago was pretty obvious, but I’m not so sure others are.
Yes, the purplish one–that’s what we decided when we saw it that day. That was a fun walk!