Saturday, January 24, 2009

Mushrooms in Our Garden.

This past week we've had unseasonal cold, damp weather, unusual for midsummer. On Monday 19th quite a number of mushrooms suddenly appeared, in a shady damp spot that doesn't get the sun. I followed the growth of a large white one through the week, it's a remarkable phenomenon:


Monday, it popped out of the ground-cover;



By Wednesday, large and round, about the span of my thumb and forefinger:


Thursday, full-blown, what next?


Friday morning: dissolved into a puddle of goo; returned to the earth from whence it came:


A life-cycle in five days, something I'd never seen before; and right outside the apartment.

There were a few smaller brown ones which followed the same cycle:

2 comments:

Hilary said...

Very cool. I would never have guess they'd dissolve like that. Good shots.

Ian Buchan said...

Thank you; I had difficulty getting a focussed picture in that light: used both flash and natural light!