Tiny Shroom
Tiny Mushrooms (likely one of the Marasmius genus [a.k.a. Pinwheel Mushrooms]; possibly one of the Marasmius quercophilus clan) - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" NYC
I had a landscaper come out to give me a quote for a "Fall cleanup" (i.e. clean up all the leaves after the last of them had fallen, trim some dead branches and chip all the dead sticks around the edge of the yard from all the branches that had fallen earlier in the year). However, after he gave me a quote of $750 (one day with 3 people at $50/hr). I told him I'd think about it (about 3 milliseconds), and today trimmed the dead branches myself. I'll drag the fallen sticks around the edge of the yard down to the street during the annual autumn "stick week", and I'll rake up the leaves myself. All of which will take about one complete day for little old me!
Yow, it sure does feel good to be making $150/hr,
but shoosh now, and don't tell Barack, or he might tax me for that $750!
These shroom pics are of tiny little mushrooms that were growing on the branches I cut off one of my dead elm trees with a 20 foot pole saw (I left the trunks standing for the woodpeckers). The branches were their own little ecosystems of mosses, lichen, mushrooms, and crawly critters. I liked how the mushrooms oriented their tiny 1/8" (2 - 3 mm) caps upward no matter what side of the branch they grew out of, and how the tiny environment of mosses and bark made them look so much bigger than they really were.
FYI these were captured using a 100 mm macro lens with a full set of extension tubes (about 60 mm) on a 50D body. That over taxed the lens, so they're not as sharp as I'd like, but these guys were really tiny!
Marasmius siccus???
Mycena subcaerulea???
But no one could say for sure without a microscope and close examination of the spores.
Tiny Shroom
Tiny Mushrooms (likely one of the Marasmius genus [a.k.a. Pinwheel Mushrooms]; possibly one of the Marasmius quercophilus clan) - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" NYC
I had a landscaper come out to give me a quote for a "Fall cleanup" (i.e. clean up all the leaves after the last of them had fallen, trim some dead branches and chip all the dead sticks around the edge of the yard from all the branches that had fallen earlier in the year). However, after he gave me a quote of $750 (one day with 3 people at $50/hr). I told him I'd think about it (about 3 milliseconds), and today trimmed the dead branches myself. I'll drag the fallen sticks around the edge of the yard down to the street during the annual autumn "stick week", and I'll rake up the leaves myself. All of which will take about one complete day for little old me!
Yow, it sure does feel good to be making $150/hr,
but shoosh now, and don't tell Barack, or he might tax me for that $750!
These shroom pics are of tiny little mushrooms that were growing on the branches I cut off one of my dead elm trees with a 20 foot pole saw (I left the trunks standing for the woodpeckers). The branches were their own little ecosystems of mosses, lichen, mushrooms, and crawly critters. I liked how the mushrooms oriented their tiny 1/8" (2 - 3 mm) caps upward no matter what side of the branch they grew out of, and how the tiny environment of mosses and bark made them look so much bigger than they really were.
FYI these were captured using a 100 mm macro lens with a full set of extension tubes (about 60 mm) on a 50D body. That over taxed the lens, so they're not as sharp as I'd like, but these guys were really tiny!
Marasmius siccus???
Mycena subcaerulea???
But no one could say for sure without a microscope and close examination of the spores.