4 more pictures in notes above! :)

Wow, yesterday's bike ride totally wrecked me! I've been tired all day, and so has Steve--we really should have gone on a shorter ride--and I'm very run-down and battling cold germs that are threatening to make me sick. Airborne is really helping, but I'll be sure not to stay up too late tonight... I hate getting sick!

That being said, I decided not to go on my long walks today and instead took the dogs to the lower forest where I uncovered another one of the mushrooms I found the other day. (They are hiding in the tall dead grass and weeds and you can only just barely see the caps!) Since the aperture merging trick I used worked so well with the other mushroom, I used it today as well. This is also a Parasol mushroom, but as you can see, it's very different looking, so I thought it would be ok to share. I am crazy about the exposed gills, aren't they fabulous?! I always like to show them because they're so interesting, but it's not always possible to get a proper angle for this. However, this mushroom's gills are very exposed and I just HAD to take pictures!!

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