In the light

I'm posting early, as there is a chance that I will be out this evening. Today is another cold, snowy day and my car is going to need clearing of snow before I can go anywhere. The roads are supposed to be even worse than yesterday (though I stayed home). There were around 200 traffic accidents yesterday in the city. Unfortunately, I don't have the option of staying home, safe and warm, today. Drive safely, everyone!

I liked the pattern on the stalk of this mushroom, found in Bragg Creek Provincial Park or West Bragg Creek Natural Area on 20th August.

Just got home from a volunteer shift and found that there was not a single comment on this photo or the one below it. I uploaded my pics early today, maybe 7 or 8 hours ago, so this is really, really weird. Never happened before. I did just lighten and replace this mushroom image and the mushroom one below, thinking they were rather dark, but I would have thought that one of my Flickr friends would have commented " Hey, this is much too dark" or something similar, LOL. Anyone else having something similar happening?