This lovely pair of mushrooms...
... sprouting from the vividly green grass, fresh, tall and wet after the recent rain ...
... is one of the many interesting finds I came across in these autumn days ...
... on the meadows not far from my home ...
... this large, juicy and edible parasol mushroom is also growing in the tall grass ... the weather these days is very variable, so some shots will be in the dark and gray atmosphere and some other will look like springtime leftovers ...
... these much smaller mushrooms are growing in places covered with short grass and other plants with leaves laying on the ground ... and they mostly sprout in groups...
... but this, pretty peculiar one, of the same type ...
... is growing strangely intertwined with a plant with large thorny leaves, looks almost like the plant is eating or embracing the fungi ... or that this is a strange organism with an umbrella-shaped head and flat, thorny tentacles ...
... and while talking about strange looking things ... is time to mention these remains of the puffball mushrooms ... they are filled with very fine powder ...
...when looked up close ...
... through the Raynox DCR - 250 macro conversion lens ...
... this becomes a strange violet landscape ...
... a very interesting place...
... to explore ...
... a surprising little world inside the world ...
... populated with lovely little monsters ...
... like these minuscule green collembola ...
... they have surprisingly cute and cartoonish faces ...
... when seen very up close ...
... the rolly pollies present here are also minuscule ... just slightly bigger then collembola ... and then ...
... there is this slimy little thing ... and I don't know what it is ...
... back in the normal view, out of the macro, we can see that the puff mushrooms at this stage are essentially just piles of powder ... and most of them look like broken ruins of a mushroom ...
... but some of them ... very rare ones ...
... have retained their shape ... or changed in the forms that look like toadstools made of, or covered with, fine powder ...
... the autumn days this year, are so far extremely warm and completely out of season...
... so on these meadows ... surprisingly ...
... I saw many Argiope spiders ...
... the females ...
... guarding their cocoons ...
... the fields are covered with silk ...
... and these cool looking constructions ...
... but let's go back to the mushrooms ...
... because this is the Fungi Friday ... not Silky Sunday :D ... or Spider Saturday ... or who knows what ...
... many tiny mushrooms are also part of this ecosystem ...
... like these elegantly elongated ones ...
... or these .. with a beautiful shiny umbrella ... that looks a bit like a silver plate ...
... and now ... with this little unremarkable brown mushroom ... in the short sunny period between two showers of rain ... is time to end this little voyage through the meadows ... as always in these posts on Steemit, all the photographs are my work ... THE END