Foraging and Sharing Mushroom Food

unexpected help

feels like a gift to her heart

my wonderful travel case

made by Peg and Awl
it helps to inspire art anywhere I go

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Fungi

this autumn it has rained

and 

poured

and sprinked

at the moment it is pouring rain!

such a great environment for mushrooms to fruit up 

through the crust of our earth

I adore finding them, seeing them, learning about them

and 

lately drawing and painting them

tonight it will freeze and that will stop most mushrooms from popping up. 

Mushroom season is coming to an end. 

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I hope you enjoy my little mushrooms

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Art Challenge: Winter Salon

deep in a California forest

land of moss and rain

there was a winter party going on

the fungi gathered 

to dance and chatter

one of them said: can you imagine living in a Montana forest

earth frozen and cloaked in snow

we could not fruit until spring

all the more reason to gather and celebrate life

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winter Salon is our theme this week

offered by our lovely friend Stefanie

I did not know what it meant

I think it is a lovely idea to gather, visit, share and ponder

with one another

Thank you for being our host Stefanie!

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Story Tellers

They have so much to tell her!

They told her about the baby merganser ducks

that like to ride on their mothers back:

and 

about the magical pink and purple moss cloaked boulder

in the forest

how under the stars of the night sky

it rises from the earth 

becoming its moonlight form

a rugged man

who waltzes with the trees

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