Hi, my dear friends!
You may remember, I've already said goodbye to this community until spring. There are no mushrooms in our climate zone in winter! But nature continues to work miracles and behave outside the box. And so, fulfilling the New Year's resolutions to walk more with my dogs, we went to the forest. I must say that the weather was completely snowless that day. Did I hope to find mushrooms? Of course not! After all, in December we had snow, which melted just before Christmas.
And imagine, I'm going and seeing an old stump. The old stump is an interesting object in itself, because with his photo you can then create collages, for example, it can depict a cave. And here I see mushrooms! Of course, they were not strong and cheerful summer or autumn mushrooms, it was clear that life pretty much battered them, but nevertheless, they survived and overcame all the difficulties! 💪
But that's not the end of my mushroom history that day. We went further and I noticed a tree standing right on the slope of a small ravine. My attention was drawn to the moss on the barrel. I carefully, so as not to roll down, tried to inspect the barrel from the other side and what I found! A whole mushroom family settled there! It looks like these mushroom guys decided that it would be a great idea to hide from the snow on the trunk of this tree! I've seen similar photos taken by other people, but I've never seen mushrooms grow like that in our forest!
Of course, I tried to take a picture of them as close as I could. The problem was that the slope was quite steep and I didn't want to try at all how soft it would be if I had to roll down it 😁.
The natural world has so much to teach us and show us. It is beautiful how it never stops amusing.
Without a doubt it was a great find, dear friend @torem-di-torem, that you found mushrooms at this time of year is wonderful, nature is surprising
Beautiful shots congratulations
have a beautiful afternoon
Nice find at this time of the year. I love all the shots you found. It has been mild here in N.Y too and I have a lot of lichen on my trees now which is interesting for this time of year.