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- www.kevin-palmer.com - The most visited part of Toadstool Geological Park is this 1-mile loop trail.
I announced that last month's visit to Algonquin Park was a scouting trip for a proposed "moose shoot". After all, why not tell folks what you're planning to do an then simply go "Do it.". As it turned out, it was a very wet year. Beaver had built dams that flooded one of my favorite moose viewing areas of years gone by. And the moose had the good sense to hide in the drier parts of the deep bush.
Toadstools like this one and some fall color shots were the only available subjects. At least this one was a large and distinguished specimen.
I guess I needed to be reminded that "The best laid plans of mice and men...".
Toadstools growing from a log of wood
Related (in the Power of Positive Relationships group): more toadstools growing on wood
Record rains through parts of Texas during late summer and early fall of 2018 created ideal opportunities for fungi to develop. I don't know the correct species names but gave them descriptive titles, when possible. Some of them are beyond describing but are just weird and fascinating.
Various places in South and Southwest Texas during 2018.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - A pile of boulders glow in the early morning light at Toadstool Geological Park.
This is fun to research but after a little digging the basic finding seems to be that there isn't a difference. Both can be poisonous, both can have caps and stems or not. The only difference I could find after reading quite a few articles was that a toadstool's gills will not darken with age and a mushroom's will go from almost white to almost black. I don't eat any of these but Moe, Benni's new friend was chomping them up the other day. That looked very dangerous to me so I leashed up Benni so she wouldn't see what he was doing. Moe is a new rescue so Sandy didn't know about this habit. He was fine after his snack.
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Toadstools growing in the grass between our driveway and the neighbours.
3 1/4 inches tall. Inspired by fly agaric, the bright red mushrooms of folk & fairy tales. Mixed fabrics, hand stitched.
I like to imagine living in an Alice in Wonderland style world where mushrooms are vastly taller than humans. Canon T2i + Rokinon 85 mm.
Klick here for a large view!
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, and earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland. Hoodoos consist of soft sedimentary rock topped by harder, less easily-eroded stone that protects each column from the elements.
They are mainly located in the desert in dry, hot areas. In common usage, the difference between hoodoos and pinnacles or spires is that hoodoos have a variable thickness often described as having a "totem pole-shaped body." A spire, on the other hand, has a smoother profile or uniform thickness that tapers from the ground upward. (Geology purists do note that only a tall formation should be called a hoodoo; any other shape is called a 'hoodoo rock'.)[citation needed]
Hoodoos range in size from that of an average human to heights exceeding a 10-story building. Hoodoo shapes are affected by the erosional patterns of alternating hard and softer rock layers. Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colors throughout their height.
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A few more from Loch Tummel, shooting images for Hugh and Kelly's Airbnb at www.airbnb.com/h/borenichfarmcottage
A cute wee mushroom I found while hunting different shots of the loch and the autumn colours
Yummy! Dark chocolate cake, strawberry mousse filling, whipped cream frosting and buttercream details. For more info on the "making of" visit www.charmandwhimsy.typepad.com.
the russula type fungi of the previous picture , showing the full extent of the colony near hatchmere cheshire
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, and earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland. Hoodoos consist of soft sedimentary rock topped by harder, less easily-eroded stone that protects each column from the elements.
They are mainly located in the desert in dry, hot areas. In common usage, the difference between hoodoos and pinnacles or spires is that hoodoos have a variable thickness often described as having a "totem pole-shaped body." A spire, on the other hand, has a smoother profile or uniform thickness that tapers from the ground upward. (Geology purists do note that only a tall formation should be called a hoodoo; any other shape is called a 'hoodoo rock'.)[citation needed]
Hoodoos range in size from that of an average human to heights exceeding a 10-story building. Hoodoo shapes are affected by the erosional patterns of alternating hard and softer rock layers. Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colors throughout their height.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia