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This same Mushroom has appeared in photographs immediately before these on Flickr. These two images have a link below to Selva Pascuala a prehistoric archaeological site in Spain that has fungoid rock art on the cave walls. This Mushroom on Wallace’s Cave in Scotland in not prehistoric, nor of the psychotropic variety proposed depicted in Spain. One rather base link might be the growing medium. Is the breath of visitors enough to provide the material on the cave to support growth of such a large mushroom? There are prehistoric carvings near The Wallace Cave and it has me wondering on modern and ancient fungiculture that relies on a substrate to feed the growth. Maybe cave paintings display the nomadic seasonal hunt and the potential to cultivate from wild beast and wild growths through tended patches a harvest off the right animal dung that would host the correct fungi?
It seems very likely that hunter gatherers would see growths on dung and degenerating wood and see the potential for collecting the correct medium to continue mycelium and such root like structures to have harvestable growths close to hand. The current Mushroom as seen in the photographs I do not propose as a Prehistoric continuation. I just think of past and contemporary cave users providing breath and other fungi food and maybe here in Wallace’s Cave that hosts a renewed and redressed bed of rushes that someone may also be tending this wonderful growth rooted upon fertile medium in a crack in the cave. The white budding fungi spheroids seem to show a near water fall of growth in the well shaded semi dark of the small cave.
Much less visited than Rosslyn Chapel on the opposite Western Bank of The North Esk river you will find The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthornden Castle. If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
In the pictures uploaded to Flickr immediately before these two those two both the Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom were a joint effort. I managed in Manual Focus to capture an impressionistic rendering and a photographic view of the same rather large mushroom. My lighting expert is not on Flickr so I cannot link them locally and I do not have permission to link them further afield. He is a great companion to share a historically important cave with. Our focus on photography led us to moths and small gnats and large spiders with varying fungi and moss and lichen. The clean air just 8 miles from Edinburgh enables some fantastic growths that increase in quantity and size as you move further away from the city into more vibrant landscapes that support such greater growth. The size and vitality of the Mushroom was so unexpected that I have labelled it fabulous, miraculous and magical as it certainly appeared that way being the only such branching out extended growth from the rock face with roots nestled in a shallow crack.
The cave shows many pick marks from it having being extended and masoned sections where door and fittings have been fitted and broken away. The valley side opposite Rosslyn Chapel and Castle has a path way and viewing platforms cut into the cliff sides. The cave itself is not too large and the Mushroom as focus of attention and camera here looks quite unlikely to be natural and also at the same time possible so. It does appear like something brought in affixed and maybe even tended. There is a bed of rushes in the cave, changed annually and often dressed into the form of a sleeping figure. This Both Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom that proudly proclaims itself present and potent whilst discreetly declining any casual further investigation beyond speculation such as I have delivered here.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
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A Cave In Spain Contains the Earliest Known Depictions of Mushrooms by Brian Akers
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Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
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Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
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Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
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Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
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Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
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Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Karvane nahkis + vööt-tagel.
Karvanahakka + pinovyökääpä.
Substrate: Betula.
Rehessaare, Kõrvemaa.
continuing the spring roll-out of Salticids, Aelurillus v-insignitus are now out in stony substrates.
Substrate: Aesculus hippocastanum.
Eesti punase nimestiku liik, ohustatud (EN).
Rakvere, Lääne-Virumaa.
Lines like crystals form at perpoendicular angles to existing lines. A complex form emerges. A link to the algorithm.
Substrate: Watercolour paper 180gsm
Light sensitive anthotype dye: Ground Turmeric in 95% Ethanol
Application: Brush
Opaque layer: Grass seeds, Wisteria leaves, Fishbone fern frond.
Exposure time: 3.5h sunlight
Post exposure treatment: 2%(w/v) sodium bicarbonate
14" x 16" x 1" mosaic - stained & iridescent glass, ceramic, unglazed porcelain, glass beads, dinnerware shards & pebbles on a hand build substrate
The Hoary Comma is one of numerous species of butterflies that use animal scat to obtain minerals. Another "poopaphile". Photographed along a road in the Gifford Pinchot NF, Yakima Co, WA, July 6, 2018.
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Palmarium Reserve
Well camouflaged gecko.
Wikipedia-
Uroplatus phantasticus, the satanic leaf-tailed gecko, is a species of gecko indigenous to the island of Madagascar. U. phantasticus is the smallest in body of the Uroplatus geckos. It may also be known as the eyelash leaf-tailed gecko or the fantastic leaf-tailed gecko.
The species is endemic to Madagascar, meaning it is found nowhere else. It is an arboreal species that relies on its natural camouflage in the northern and central tropical forests of Madagascar. Its adult size is 2.6 to 6 inches (66 to 152 mm) in total length, including the tail.
A nocturnal reptile, with suitably large eyes, the leaf-tailed gecko moves about its rainforest habitat at night feeding on insects. The adhesive scales under their fingers and toes and their strong curved claws enable them to move adeptly through the trees. The leaf-tailed gecko is somewhat of an expert at avoiding predators, not only through their incredible mimicry, but through a number of behaviours. They can flatten their body against the substrate to reduce the body’s shadow, open their jaws wide to show a frightening, bright red mouth, and voluntarily shed their tail in order to trick a predator.
Like many reptiles, the leaf-tailed gecko is oviparous, or egg-laying. Reproduction starts at the beginning of the rainy season when it lays clutches of two spherical eggs onto the ground under leaf litter, or in the dead leaves of plants.
Habitat destruction, deforestation, and collection for the pet trade all threaten the existence of this animal. Studies suggest that leaf-tailed geckos can only inhabit a very specific environment and are not tolerant of any degradation of its natural habitat. This makes the satanic leaf-tailed gecko very vulnerable to the impacts of habitat degradation and harvesting.
Asplenium scolopendrium, known as hart's-tongue or hart's-tongue fern (syn. Phyllitis scolopendrium) is a fern in the genus Asplenium, of the Northern Hemisphere. The plants are unusual in being ferns with simple, undivided fronds. The tongue-shaped leaves have given rise to the common name Hart's tongue fern; a hart being an adult male red deer. The sori pattern is reminiscent of a centipede's legs, and scolopendrium is Latin for centipede. The leaves are 10–60 cm long and 3–6 cm broad, with sori arranged in rows perpendicular to the rachis. Asplenium scolopendrium is a common diploid species in Europe. In North America it occurs in rare, widely scattered populations that have been given varietal status, A. scolopendrium var. americanum. Morphological differences are minor, but the North American populations are tetraploid. 29605