As beautiful as the flowers and trees are, sometimes if you get really close to the ground, you can find beauty as well. When I was headed out to pasture after our last rain, I was walking past the barn.
That ground is made of lots of composting manure with a touch of hay thrown in the mix. Look closely, however, before the sun rises high in the sky, and you might see some fungi.
Really, I don’t know how fun they are, but I had a lot of fun getting down low and a little bit dirty and photographing them and editing my pictures.
It was not very long before they had been burned away by the sun. I was glad I took the time to notice them.
Linking to You Capture where this week’s theme is “The View From Down Here.”
Teresa
Aug 06, 2012 @ 14:52:19
I’m glad you took the time too! This is why I love photography. You discover all kinds of cool things about our world. These are the most fascinating mushrooms. They resemble tiny flowers. Cool beans!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 14:53:36
It was really neat to see them looking like toadstools, open as flowers and the withering under the sun. A few minutes earlier or later, and I would have missed it!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 14:56:27
parasols and ‘daisies’. really cute.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 14:57:35
That is a great description of them!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 15:44:26
It does look like little umbrellas and flowers.
Neat!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 16:16:43
It reminds me of the little smurf village.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 16:21:41
I like the little mushroom flowers.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 16:49:46
The are so delicate! I though they were cute too.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 16:53:29
Oh, I’ve seen lots of that in the manure piles! Cool little umbrellas.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 16:55:41
Nothing like manure to grow cool fungi!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 18:30:05
Sometimes when I’m mulching with mushroom soil, I find things like this too. They really are pretty, in their own way!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 19:30:44
They really did look pretty with the sun shining on them.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 18:30:08
But it’s getting so hard to get back up!!
Great photos of the fungi, I’m glad you shared them with us!
Aug 06, 2012 @ 19:31:18
You know, I’ve noticed that lately. I can’t be getting old. Really…
Aug 06, 2012 @ 20:43:54
What a neat surprise! The things you miss out on if you dont take time to look close!
Glad you had fun with them.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 20:44:49
These were really fun photos to play with.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 22:19:00
Wow, they may not be big fungi, but they sure are impressive! Great shots.
Aug 06, 2012 @ 22:22:47
Thanks. They were very tiny!
Aug 07, 2012 @ 00:42:56
I am appreciated abt ur creative eye
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Aug 07, 2012 @ 08:17:12
Thanks.
Aug 07, 2012 @ 01:17:41
Wow! Those pictures are beautiful and spectacular! What amazing captures! You rocked this challenge!
Aug 07, 2012 @ 08:17:32
You are quite flattering. It was fun to play with the photos.
Aug 07, 2012 @ 05:02:09
Hi there – great set of mushrooms – they look very similar to ones we had in our raised garden beds – and possibly for the same reason!
I think a good many people just declare a moth to be “a slightly faded example of the freckled maple underwing” or whatever with the clear confidence that nobody will know any different!!
SM
Aug 07, 2012 @ 08:18:38
Hmmm…I might have to try that and see. Of course when I misnamed a plant recently, I was corrected! That’s good, but maybe I’ll just stick with asking if anyone has a clue what it is and let them do the work for me.
Aug 07, 2012 @ 08:25:08
I mentioned admiring the fungus in my post today. But your fungus is prettier than my fungus! I relate to the fun photo shoot, my favorite thing to do.
Aug 07, 2012 @ 09:37:35
It is so relaxing to take the camera and go looking for that perfect shot!
Aug 07, 2012 @ 13:33:45
Wow! Thye look like little magical fairy flowers and trees, don’t they? It is amazing how funghi can appear like this, almost overnight. I love all your photos!
Aug 07, 2012 @ 16:08:47
Thanks. They really did have a magical quality to them!
Aug 07, 2012 @ 15:27:00
Thanks for stopping by and saying hello. I am always surprised how beautiful fungus can look through a camera lens.
Aug 07, 2012 @ 16:09:15
It is amazing how it can transform something common into something great.
Aug 08, 2012 @ 02:11:42
Being able to discover things I might not have otherwise noticed is one of the things I really love about You Capture
Great shots! Those mushrooms are really lovely and you got some great shots of them. Aren’t fungi magically? One moment you see nothing, then they’re growing like crazy — and suddenly, they’re gone again
Aug 08, 2012 @ 08:16:03
They really are! I really enjoy You Capture too.
Aug 09, 2012 @ 20:57:59
Beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Aug 09, 2012 @ 21:00:02
I’m glad you like them. It was a nice surprise to find them that morning.
Aug 10, 2012 @ 22:13:52
I get these mushrooms in my garden in the woodchip mulch. They don’t last long, but they are so pretty while they are there. Love your photos.
Aug 10, 2012 @ 22:16:14
Thanks. They really are quick little visitors.