Lockdown in 2020 taught us to value the tiny slivers of the unexpected in our necessarily limited ‘Daily Exercise’. Here’s yesterday’s unexpected: a cluster of tiny mushrooms in autumn-leaf red, cheerfully growing in the middle of the village cricket pitch. I don’t know what they are. Do you?

They’re multi-tasking mushrooms, because they’re here for Becky’s Walking Squares, as well as for Brian’s Last on the Card for October. Brian insists that we don’t edit our photos, but if I need a square photo, I’ll just have to make a subtle clip, top and bottom. I might get away with it.

What is it about football cleats, that makes a mushroom grow? Will they be stark white fungi, or red we will soon know. : )
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Not a football cleat in sight, Rebecca. On a CRICKET pitch? Please no … 😉
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Mixed metaphor on my part, must have been the meddling football player that caused the mushroom… ; )
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You’re OK. Nobody noticed!
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Thought not 😉
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Bright red waxcap – probably. I have set my phone camera to 1:1 formatting. Makes it so much easier.
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Thanks for the ID. And the hint, which is, I think, above my pay grade.
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You definitely got away with it in my mind. Wonderful photo for both challenges 😀 😀
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Thanks Cee.
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You made me laugh out loud with your ‘subtle clip’. I don’t know what your mushrooms are, but best left in the fields, would be my guess.
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I shan’t be eating them, for sure.
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he better let you off for a slight tweaking! What a great find
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As you see, I seem to have been let off.
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I think you might just get away with it, Margaret. Funnily enough we had some growing on our croquet lawn, but not choice red specimens like this.
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Pesky mushrooms! Not even edible!
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Yes Margaret, forgiven as it is for a good cause…..squares is back!!!! They are fabulous fungi. I agree with Jude, Red Caps possibly. Thanks for joining in 🙂 🙂
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Thank for the info. And for the forgiveness.
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You have the best way of bringing a community together with photography, Margaret. I especially appreciated your first line: “Lockdown in 2020 taught us to value the tiny slivers of the unexpected in our necessarily limited “Daily Exercise.” We did learn a great deal during these past years. I am grateful for our connection.
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Me too. I think it was probably just before Lockdown that we started to follow one another’s posts? In – alas – more innocent times.
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‘Lockdown’ it feels like two years went missing one way or another. No idea about the mushrooms, but agree with you about not eating them – red fungi, definitely suspect.
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Red = danger, I think we can surmise.
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Fascinating!
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A lucky find.
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Here’s to serendipity!
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