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Nature’s Art #35.
Hello everyone! A big oops for me, I forgot the Nature’s Art for Tuesday! Amazing how I managed to do that. But we are here today with another look at the beauty to be found out in nature and sometimes these things can be found in our own yards, or when we walk down the street, or in parks. However, I am not suggesting going to parks or other public places these days. But we can still enjoy the beauty of our natural world right here with photos. Sometimes that is the best and safest way to do things. Today is really a beautiful day once more, the sun was shining brightly, but now the clouds have taken over again and there are a few lazy snowflakes floating to the ground. Not that I really want to see snowflakes right now, but it does look sort of nice anyway. Rain would be more fun to see though, but I’m sure that will come too.
And now for our look at some interesting art in nature with our mushrooms…
Here we have a “shaggy parasol” mushroom, which I think is really quite interesting. It is quite large, this one is 5 inches (12.5cm) across the top and they can get larger than that. They are listed as edible, but some people can have severe reactions to this so it’s really best to leave it alone and just enjoy it’s beauty.
I think I showed this one once before without knowing what it was. This is the “orange mock-oyster” mushroom. It is very bright and easy to see. When broken it has a very disagreeable odor that smells much like sulfur, and although it shouldn’t have to be said after smelling it, do not eat! Just enjoy it’s beauty right where it is.
There is our nature’s art for today, I hope you have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Daily Pics #86.
Good morning to all of you on this fine day! It’s a bit of a chilly morning today, but hopefully this should be the last one. It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday, though not very warm, but still, it was melting a bit anyway. The snow is disappearing and warmer weather is just a couple days away. And when that warmth hits, the snow will disappear quickly and the birds will really begin to return from their southern locations. Spring is such a beautiful time of year. I spent quite a bit of time out on the deck yesterday watching all the bird activity, which actually wasn’t very much. Most of the winter birds seem to have spread out already, heading to other areas now that the weather is nicer. So it’s sort of that in between time now, before the spring birds really start arriving. But that shouldn’t be long.
And now for the bright beauty of our daily flower pics…
Here we have yet another pink peony, still with some drops of rain after a June shower.
And we keep moving into darker pink all the time with another peony soaking up the sun on an early June day.
I hope you are enjoying our look at peonies these days. Have a wonderful day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
