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Substrate: Watercolour paper 180gsm
Light sensitive anthotype dye: Grated beeroot juice
Application: dabbing with grated beetroot ball in a synthetic cloth
Opaque layer: conifer
Exposure time: 5 days intermittent sunlight (weather has been terrible - only one full day of sunlight)
Contrast was low so I had to work on this in photoshop.
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
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
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)
metal bridge
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La Saxifraga aspera è una specie delle montagne dell'Europa sudoccidentale presente lungo tutto l'arco alpino e sull'Appennino settentrionale. Cresce su rupi ombrose, in pietraie, su blocchi erratici, sempre su substrati silicei, dalla fascia montana superiore a quella alpina, con optimum nella fascia subalpina. Il nome generico deriva dal latino 'saxum' (sasso) e 'frangere' (rompere) e significa quindi 'pianta che spezza le pietre', a causa dell'ecologia di molte specie che vivono sulle rocce; il nome specifico "aspera" si riferisce alle foglie munite di denti acuti. Periodo di fioritura: giugno-luglio.
Saxifraga aspera is a species of the mountains of south western present throughout the Alps and the northern Apennines. It grows on shady rocks, in scree, on erratic blocks, always on silica substrates, the mountain area above the alpine, with optimum in subalpine. The generic name is derived from the Latin 'saxum' (rock) and 'frangere' (shatter, break) and therefore means 'plant that breaks the stones', because the ecology of many species that live on the rocks; The specific name 'aspera' refers to the leaves equipped with sharp teeth. Flowering time: June-July.
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Substrate: Picea abies.
Eesti punase nimestiku liik, ohualdis (VU).
Vana viljakeha. / Old fruitbody.
Uljaste, Ida-Virumaa.
Karvane nahkis + vööt-tagel + kasepehik.
Karvanahakka + pinovyökääpä + koivunhelttakääpä.
Substrate: Betula.
Rehessaare, Kõrvemaa.
Radiaalvammik + vööt-tagel + kasepehik.
Rusorypykkä + pinovyökääpä + koivunhelttakääpä.
Substrate: Acer platanoides.
Rakvere, Lääne-Virumaa.
Substrate: Phellinus tremulae, Populus tremula.
Eesti punase nimestiku liik, ohualdis (VU). LK III.
Sirtsi, Ida-Virumaa.
MailArt making, WAAR2015. Collage fun with cereal box substrates, paint, oil pastel crayons, hand cut stencil-painted clouds, ephemera
A female Dicyrtomina saundersi from today, this is a 9 image handheld focus stack at x7 magnification. It was quite a pleasant day today and got off to a brilliant start, I got up at 8am, opened the curtains to see a load of Waxwings on a neighbours aerial, then got so excited that I fluffed the shots, but at least I can finally say that I've seen Waxwings, I spent the rest of the day looking for some and I must have wandered around most of Melton Mowbray.
I eventually settled for another Collembola hunt, I could not find much else, but I'm still happy :o)
A MUST TO VIEW ON BLACK OR LARGE
Moonhole is a private community on the island of Bequia (Bek-way) in the Grenadines. Moonhole derives its name from a massive arch formed in volcanic substrate through which the setting moon is sometimes visible. (see previous shot)
Founded by Thomas and Gladys Johnston in the 1960s, Moonhole is now a private nature preserve. In the late 1960s, the Johnstons retired from the advertising business in New York and founded the Moonhole community on the narrow western tip of the island. Tom and "Gladdie" began building a house beneath the arch with the aid of local masons from the nearby village of Paget Farm. Using whalebones, native hardwoods, and objects recovered from the sea, they built large open rooms with magnificent views of the sea. Without wells or electricity, they collected rainwater from the roofs and stored it in cisterns for bathing and washing. The master bath had a large tree that grew right up through a large hole in the roof. Large windows facing the prevailing trade winds had plexiglass panes that could be lowered into place. The bedrooms surrounded a central dining room, veranda and large bar made from a humpback whale's jaw bone. In the early years there was not even a road to Moonhole. People from Paget Farm walked in daily to bring in fresh fruit and freshly baked bread and to do any necessary cooking.
Tom and Gladdie later formed Moonhole Company Limited and contributed the approximately 30 acre property to the company. Tom bequeathed his controlling interest in Moonhole Company Limited to a trust for the protection and preservation of Moonhole for posterity. The Thomas and Gladys Johnston Moonhole Conservation Trust Limited is dedicated to preserving the unique architecture, lifestyle, and vision of the Johnstons and to protecting the birds, wildlife and marine life on the peninsula at the western end of Bequia. There are now eleven privately owned homes at Moonhole and four houses owned by Moonhole Company Limited.
A young Burrowing Owlet cuddles next to his mom. She is grooming him but it almost seems like she is whispering secrets in his ear. Of course, that might be difficult to say since burrowing owls, unlike some other owls, don't have ear tufts. Burrowing owls live in burrows frequently excavated by other animals. When the substrate is soft, as it is in Florida, these birds will create the burrows themselves. They are extremely adept at digging, with their proportionately long legs. They line the burrows and periphery with a variety of things, including animal dung. This helps to moderate temperature in the burrow, but also attracts insects that are on their menu. Why go shopping when the shopping can come to you! Hopefully mom is giving junior some good pointers that will help him survive. #BurrowingOwls