Dear Liza,
With a nice damp Fall, mushrooms are doing very well here in Portland.
Today, I walked around Lone Fir Cemetery. The leaves, the dead, and the damp combine to create some real beauties.
I am not an expert in fungi and don’t know the names of any of these. The only thing I know about wild mushrooms is to NOT eat them…. Unless you are properly trained.
But I am not shy about getting down on my tummy to take some close-ups! Aren’t these beautiful?
Someone picked this mushroom before I got there, and laid it on top of a grave stone.
This batch of tissue- thin mushrooms was surrounded by quite a busy swarm of gnats, so I decided I was about done, took my picture quickly and headed off.
Thanks, Dead People!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 