Mushrooms, as well as moss and its beautiful spores, are two things I've been missing a lot lately. Imagine, the dry period—which will probably still be long—causing these two objects to be so hard to find.
In analogy, it's like a boobook bird missing the moon; like someone who misses his lover who has been gone for a long time and has not returned; or like a frog's habitat that misses the rain.
There are many local forests that I explored recently, but to find mushrooms or spore lichens was impossible, that was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It takes time to wait for the dry period to end, at least in the next few months, when the rainy season arrives, you can see these two objects again, growing in the dim light in the forests, and even in your yard.
These were the mushrooms, and spores of lichen that I had found the previous February in the local woods. Wherever mushrooms grow, you're sure to find spore-forming lichens.
Look at that! How do these two milking bonnets (Mycena galopus) stand like beautiful fairies among the moss spores that bow in reverence. The two mushrooms seemed to be being hailed by them.
While this one seems to stray alone there. With its so wrinkled cap, it seemed to want to shade the moss spores underneath.
Common stump brittlestem (Psathyrella piluliformis) is often referred to for this fungus and is usually a type of mushroom that grows in clusters. But whether alone or in a crowd, I wouldn't pass it by without taking photos.
This is another entry I submitted for the daily #monomad challenge.
All of the images here are my own work, taken with Xiaomi POCO NFC smartphone and an assembled external macro lens.
