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Less than an hour from Page, the toadstools are a great place to spend a couple of hours with a camera
Whipsnade Heath, Bedfordshire, England
I’ve decided that life is too short to try and identify any but the most obvious fungi.
Recent rains have caused various fungi to flourish in Manly Dam. This vivid blue toadstool caught my eye,
Many who visit here do not venture a few hundred meters around to the west to discover a garden of these bizarre rocks.
A technical note here: I have begun to learn Adobe Lightroom after having used Photoshop Elements for the last 6 years or so. This is the first post from that new process and it is a re-do of the original processing. I can tell a definite improvement in the detail and clarity with LIghtroom. Now I'm going to want to go back and re-visit my favorite images already posted and see what I can do with them. Uh oh.
A really unique spot which is part of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. I had it to myself on this very cold early morning. Glad I made the early trip because the rest of the day was cloudy and rainy.
I went for a lunchtime stroll in a nearby wood when I came across these beauties, growing in secret near the top of a hill. Aftermuch searching of the internet I think they are Magpie Ink Cap toadstools (Coprinus picaceus). Found at an awesome website with the most incredible collection of natural history photos (plus lots more) here
I've passed the house barges at the end of the Union Canal many times, but somehow missed notcing this detail before: one of them has the little caps over the vents or chimneys shaped and coloured to look like an almost cartoon version of a giant toadstool! Made me smile.
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'.)
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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