With the light rain today, this mushroom might not offer too much weather protection with its small cap for the wee mystical woodland fairies.
Cute Mushroom
Picture of the Day for October 6, 2022
While walking through the woods looking up at the colored leaves as well as looking down at the red leaves already fallen, there might be another red object on the ground like these red colored toadstools.
Other Red
Picture of the Day for October 27, 2021
The rain shower today may have filled up this mushroom with water creating a mini bird bath on the forest floor.
Bird Bath Mushroom
Picture of the Day for September 10, 2019
When I was mowing today, I watched a deer eat some of my fallen apples, a rabbit scampering around, a bunch of toads hopping away, a mouse darting through the long grass and a grasshopper who hitched a ride on my mower, and I also saw a lot of mushroom which popped up in the last few days. They ranged in shapes, colors and sizes in the cooler fall days.
Fall Mushrooms
Picture of the Day for October 17, 2018
A little red mushroom shines in the midday sun on the edge of the woods, when it wasn’t being covered by the autumn leaves which were falling and blowing around from the wind.
Little Red
Picture of the Day for September 13, 2018
Poking up higher than the grass, many mushrooms are making their appearance in the woods and my yard. Some look like the classic cartoon mushroom like this colorful fly agaric species.
Colorful Mushroom
Picture of the Day for March 1, 2016
April showers bring May flowers but February showers just bring snow which may or may not eventually melt in March. But definitely no flowers to be seen and no toadstool poking up either. The only white bumps on the ground is snow covered rocks instead.
Family of Toadstools
Picture of the Day for December 8, 2014
As foggy as it is here this morning, I would almost expect to see gnomes sneaking through the woods and hiding under the toadstools. But the gnomes probably wouldn’t be able to move very fast through the woods since it is difficult to run in snow pants and heavy coats since no green grass to sit on but snow instead. And they might need a tarp around their toadstool so they don’t get icy since the fog is a freezing fog.
Hideout for the Gnomes
Picture of the Day for September 19, 2013
These small yellow mushrooms are easily overlooked since so tiny on the forest floor, but to an insect they might look as large as the rocks in yesterday’s picture and hard to jump from one to another.
Yellow Mushrooms
Picture of the Day for August 11, 2012
Well since I posted a mushroom looking cloud yesterday, I guess I could post a white toadstool today.
The terms “mushroom” and “toadstool” go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application. The term “toadstool” was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form.
I have no clue what kind of ‘mushroom’ or ‘toadstool’ it is, but since I’m only taking a picture and not eating it, it doesn’t matter to me.
Mushroom in the Woods
