I found these mushrooms in the fields where I walk Misty every morning. There were two pairs, one of which had been dug up by an animal but this pair was still intact. I had to wait until later in the day to go back with my camera to photograph them and luckily nothing had dug them up in the meantime.They were absolutely huge (my use of the past tense confirms that they have since been destroyed and have rotted) - I've seen nothing like them before. They must have stood 8 inches high and their caps were as much across. I have no idea whether they would be edible and I don't think I'd be interested in finding out!
I sketched them from one of my photos and watercoloured them and then spent hours trying to find an appropriate verse to add. Have you any idea how few quotations there are containing 'mushroom'?
Yeah, my first question would be the same, are they edible? Hahahaha... when you talk about huge mushrooms, 2 things came to my mind... Mario and Smurfs...teehehehe.. really nice drawing by the way!
ReplyDeleteYou've done this really well..they were big mushrooms! Have you tried looking them up on internet?
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that comes into my mind ...big faries must live there!
Great sketch. We have some big mushrooms here too, but I have no idea about them being edible.
ReplyDeletewhoa! those are so cool! really nice sketch!
ReplyDeleteA really LOVELY sketch! These are beauties!!
ReplyDeleteThose are huge! Wow! Lovely sketch of them. And I was told NEVER eat wild mushrooms unless you know what you're doing. 50% of them are poisonous! At least I was told that. Come to think of it, the person who told me is prone to hyperbole.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they would be edible - if they were what I imagine they were.. When I was in high school, we would see some of these huge mushrooms 'bloom' around out large grove-ground (that had a forest like appearance). And they were red and like you mentioned tall and wide..
ReplyDeleteHmmm now I am nostalgic ;)
Beautiful page! Yep, home to some really big faries is my guess too!
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job with these! I love stumbling across unusual things in nature - these are truly amazing! nancy
ReplyDeleteGreat sketch!
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