Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: shrooms

Had to dig a little way into my archives, back to 29th August, to find this pair of mushrooms that were growing along the Fullerton Loop trail in Kananaskis (off Highway 66, Elbow Falls Trail).

Pretty common mushrooms, no doubt, but I loved the way they were growing on this rotting tree stump. Found when botanizing the Handfield property near Millarville, south of the city, on 20th July.

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?

The ground was covered with similar mushrooms, in every direction, and though every single one was old and withered, I thought they had a strange kind of beauty. What a sight it must have been when they were all fresh! Seen in a small area of mixed trees in Jim Coutts' homestead garden, south of the city, near Nanton, on 5th September.