Mushroomed!!!

I didn’t know what I was seeing…..and these little oddities (okay, one wasn’t so odd) were just about everywhere I walked.  Even in the trees!!  I was being Mushroomed!!!

Naturally, I was captivated by the beauty and uniqueness.  In one place I’d never seen such diversity and I know I didn’t see everything, it was astounding!

I’m learning as a novice photographer to be more in tuned with my surroundings.  I look for things out-of-place, things that are in place but holler at me, unique things, and in nature that is likely to show up.

This is while walking in the Great Smokey Mountains along a stream that was leading to some falls.  This was a really challenging walk for me…..even though I walk a lot.  Within the first 100 meters there was a hill to climb and it was in stages.  At this point I wasn’t so interested in my surroundings as I was in making my way up this hill….not your normal hill, no steep incline, a steadying incline with plateaus followed by a steep hill followed by another plateau followed by another slight incline.  I took breaks and panted a bit.  Enough about my struggle!



Onward!!

Doing that climb I wasn’t interested in viewing my surroundings, I was just involved with the task of the climb and added to that was the party I was hiking with, I had told to go ahead without me and I’d catch up…I needed another camera from the SUV.

It was interesting….. walking next to the stream, hearing the water and seeing the rapids.

Mushroomed!!!

And it was on the return that I discovered these beauties……  The orange one above I first saw in the trees as if it were a flower!  After this find, I then knew better.  The yellow one is a Chanterele, it is used ​in French cuisine, this vase-shaped, bright yellow to orange fungus is expensive when fresh.  So, they both could be the same mushroom…interesting.

I like the term ‘Mushroomed’.  I have an idea for a painting of such.  ‘Mushroomed’



Carrying on….

  This little jewel caught my attention without being too colorful, it reminded me of ‘blue cheese’.  Go figure.  I couldn’t find this one, the closest I came was ‘crust fungi’.  Maybe .Milky Blue’.



My brain is being mushroomed right now, and not in the psychedelic way.

  This appears to be an Infundibuliform Cap mushroom…..

I really don’t know these things that well, I was carefull not to touch them.



  Our standard Cap Mushroom.

This one has me a bit confused……  On, possibly an Umbrella mushroom that has a slight crack?

This unique beauty is nestled away at the base of a tree with foliage covering it.

This is a bit of my experience being mushroomed in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina,this in no way is intended to be a learning tool……just my fun and enlightening experience. Fun.

Up next, ‘They Drive Like This’!

Peace, love, and beaches,

John (Mushroomed)

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