Monday.
Yesterday.
The summer is making a little reappearance. Just as I started feeling autumn creeping up, the clouds open up for a sunny and hot day. Let's see how long it will last.
I had a great long walk around the hidden lake in the morning and took the old fold-a-bike for a spin in the early evening and I found some nice shrooms each time.
I know #FungiFriday is the real deal, but #MushroomMonday should be a thing, too! There really can't be such a thing as too much #FungiPhotography.
And I have an impressive specimen right here!
I kept the bike in frame for dimensions. This is a huge old willow tree and those mushroom brackets on the trunk are growing from the ground all the way up to eye-level.
And it doesn't stop there, in the top left there's more. Looking up the tree, it's actually several more!
I believe this to be more of the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms, I am not entirely sure, though. Maybe @warrkin can confirm?
It's probably a bit past its prime already. I think they are supposed to be eaten at a slightly younger stage before the brackets turn wrinkly like this.
Either way, I wouldn't dare to try as I am not even sure if I've identified it correctly.
Something else peculiar about it... the evening sun is making the mushrooms sweat!
It didn't rain all day, yet the evening sun seems to draw water out of the mushroom brackets. It was quite literally dripping down from it.
Not to mention the strong mushroomy smell that surrounded the willow for several meters.
On my earlier walk today I found a different mushroom, the one from the title image. It could be an oyster, but again, I am not an expert at all.
But look at those gills... and that waxy translucency... beautiful.
What's not so beautiful is the strangeness that the in-camera post-processing is doing with the bokeh in the next image... what the heck is that border on the blurred tree in the upper background?!
There's definitely some trade-offs to the convenience of #smartphonephotography.
Thanks for your time!
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