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| Mushrooms, fairy acorns and moss |
The fall and winter rains always give rise to a mushroom and moss explosion after the dry summer. Usually I pretty much ignore them. But looking desperately for something -- anything -- to take a picture of, I happened on these mushrooms during a very, very brief dry spell this afternoon. We're talking about a break in the gray clouds that was not more than a few minutes long. In fact, it may not have even qualified as a break, it was more like a slightly bright spot appeared in the cloudy cover, which I mistook for the sun coming out. I rushed outside with my camera.
I knew that because I might have a hard time finding things around my garden to photograph, that it might behoove me to start carrying my camera around with me at all times, in my purse. I suppose I could just use the camera in my iPhone, but it doesn't have a macro function. Not that I am so great at taking good pictures with my little point-and-shoot, of which I normally use only two functions -- Auto and Macro. That funny little graph that appears occasionally when I click past Manual mode to get to the Macro function frightens me.
I actually took the camera with me to the grocery store this morning, to see what pictures I could get under the bright fluorescent lights in the plant department at Fred Meyer. Pish! They didn't turn out so hot.
But I did buy a Christmas cactus, and two nice big Tillandsias for half price.
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