Perhaps you were wondering if the recent heavy rains produced a crop of mushrooms at Mary Cummings Park? Or perhaps not. But we were, and on Friday, August 24 we went out looking with camera in hand. The results were pretty spectacular, and all theses images were taken within a few feet of the trails in the deep forest of Whispering Hill Wood. (There are not so many mushrooms in the meadow or wetlands; the forest is the place for them.)
We do not know the identity of a single one of these magnificent fungi, and are a bit too harried to look them up. If you know the species let us know and we will name them properly with common and/or latin names. Meanwhile we will just enjoy their visual splendor in ignorance.
This is a porous mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
This is a thick mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
This is stubby white mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Shiny white mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkThis is shiny white mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Two mushrooms at Mary Cummings ParkHere are two mushrooms at Mary Cummings Park
Yellow mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkHere is a yellow mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Funky mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkThis is funky mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Red mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkA red mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Unidentified mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkThis is an unidentified mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Tall mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkThis is a tall mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
Conical mushroom at Mary Cummings ParkThis is a conical mushroom at Mary Cummings Park
After I set up a camera to take a timelapse, I have an hour or two with nothing else to do but wander nearby and see what else there is to see and photograph. Here is a gallery of some images taken “while the time lapses”… (You can and should click those thumbnails to see the photos larger…)
Here are some of the timelapse vidoes from Mary Cummings Park:
These photos are from the family album of Warren Cummings, who still lives across the street from the Cummings mansion and barn. Warren mows Flyer’s Field runways for the model plane fliers and keeps the field from getting overgrown with annual cutting.
