Photography Now & Then #124
The recent semi-regular wet weather and moderate to cool temperatures are apparently about right for mushrooms. I stumbled on this pair this evening. While I enjoy taking photos of mushrooms, I don’t have a clue as to what kind these are.
Now: A pair of mushrooms, west-central Arkansas, May 5, 2018 (pentax K-3 II)
Mushrooms (Complete Lawn Care, Inc)
Mushrooms are not like common lawn weeds such as dandelions and crabgrass etc… and their growth cannot be controlled.
Mushrooms are the result of the right temperatures and rainy weather and organic matter (what fungi eat) in the soil where you lawn grows.
Mushrooms typically pop up after rainy weather when the temperatures are between 50° and 90°F; the mushroom is the fruiting body (like an apple is to an apple tree) of the fungus that is growing within the soil below. When the fungus is ready to reproduce it sends up mushrooms to spread its spores; these lawn mushrooms will often grow where trees or bushes were removed, but some decaying roots remain in the soil.
Although mushrooms may look unsightly, they generally do not last for a very long time and they do not harm your grass. There are no treatments to control the growth of mushroom
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In our 2010 visit to Yellowstone, we camped at the RV park at Fishing Bridge. Several evenings, we walked along the road past the store and gas station and across Fishing Bridge, where, a couple of evenings, we spotted beaver swimming in the river. I didn’t realize until going through photos recently that I had gotten any decent image of them, which is a bit remarkable because I was going through a period of subpar photos at the time, which I also didn’t realize until later.
Then: Beaver along the bank of the Yellowstone River, Fishing Bridge Area, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, August 9, 2010 (Pentax K10D)
Photography Now & Then Notes:
- Series Photos
- The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post. In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
- The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
- Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
- The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.
