Mycenas, I think.
We still have a few more hours of showers. Tomorrow starts a four day weekend during which time I hope to get caught up on a bunch of autumn chores as well as do my usual morning photograph chasing.
No partial eclipse to be seen here. Ah well, I hope Jim got a few images for us.
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None here either. But by the time the sun had gone down the skies cleared just enough to blush a bit of pink. If only the clouds had departed an hour or so earlier. Timing is everything. D
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We’re still getting some light rain this morning. No sign of pink or anything else besides gray here.
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Yeah, I rely on him for the sky stuff 🙂 This is charming, from the title right down to the…moss? ferns???
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Clouds…darn it. 😦
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Really, for you too? No fair.
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Thanks, Melissa. The background is a moss, but I am sorry not to know which one. Just got a moss field guide but haven’t had the time to crack it open. I’m glad you like the title. 🙂
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Sorry to disappoint. We were clouded out. I could see some brightening just at sunset. But, alas! No sun visible. I guess I need to wait for the next one.
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My friend in California, who is a solar scientist with NASA, posted a picture he got from his driveway. If you do Facebook you can see it here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201811999860925&set=a.1075772633777.10635.1810068358&type=1&theater
I may ask him if I can copy it and share it here if anyone is interested.
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The link wouldn’t let me in. That’s ok. I’m glad he got a view.
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I sent him a message asking if I could copy and share it here. There is what I believe to be a solar storm visible.
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You are probably referring to this big sunspot group.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141024.html
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I don’t think he got that detail though. Hopefully he will agree and I post it here.
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You may not have seen a chunk taken out of the orb of the sun, but you’ve got little indentations all around the orbs of these mushroom caps.
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I really liked the edges and hope they help someone give me an ID. One person in a group on Facebook suggested a Psilocybe…magic mushrooms. Aside from the fact that those days are way way way way way behind me, I don’t pick wild stuff anyway. Plus, this is from 2008.
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Steve that’s a great looking pic of a lovely cluster of mushrooms. I like this one very much.
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Thanks, Yvonne. And a timely companion to your post. 🙂
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Nice rainy day shot. The colours of the green make a great background for the Browns of the shrooms
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Thanks, Rod. It is a nice lively color for the plain ol’ mushrooms.
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The way they’ve clustered together is really attractive, especially because the size varies. And now I have a clue to help me identify some similar ones that popped up in one of my planters a couple of years ago. They were the color of lemon chiffon pie, with fantastic gills. Apparently their spores were in the custom-mixed landscape soil I get from a local nursery.
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This is an old shot from the archives and I never thought about them as parasols until yesterday’s rainy weather.
This might help with your mystery yellow mushrooms. http://www.mushroommountain.com/grow_your_own/strains.asp
If you scroll down, assuming these look anything like what you are describing, they might be an Oyster Mushroom variety, Golden Oysters. Only a guess on my part based on plugging your description into Google and looking at pictures. I could be a mile off.
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These look about perfect, Steve but I’m guessing they will go over quite quickly. The frayed / fringed edges are very appealing.
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Thanks, Andrew. Those edges are a prime feature for me. They are long since past as I shot this in 2008, but I’ve been back to the same spot several times and never found them again. Timing is the key and I guess I lost it.
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