As I’ve said before when moderating other challenges, I’m posting this on Sunday since I am traveling to an area where I only have my cell - and sometimes the internet is down to zero. Please patronize the Sunday challenge before you post anything here! Now, down to business…

Well, the light is different in the sky, the air feels changed, and it’s darker out later in the morning and earlier in the evening. Plants are dying, trees are changing colors, and we’re all putting on more clothes when we venture outside. Autumn is in full swing!

It can be a melancholy time because many of us live like mole-people surrounded by greater darkness and cooler/colder weather which confines us indoors. On the other hand, the season offers a variety of activities and beautiful sights to keep our souls refreshed - outdoors!

One of my favorite activities during Autumn has been mushroom hunting. I know one or two edible kinds, but I have confined myself principally to searching for the cauliflower/sheepshead variety. I tell you, there’s nothing finer than to walk around in a forest in crisp Fall weather and to spot a beautiful cauliflower hiding in a covering of oak leaves!

My biggest triumph ‘shroom-wise was finding one growing around an old oak with a circumference of twelve feet!!! All solid cauliflower around the base! I thought I was seeing things! And this was only about a block or two away from our little Indiana house at Fish Lake. My 90-year old mother had warned me before not to go bringing back any mushrooms since she didn’t feel like cleaning them. Well, when I told her, she smiled and relented and said to bring it. I did, and we ended up with about 40 pounds.

Unfortunately, pictures of it are somewhere in the 200 thousand photos I have taken in the past 20 years and stored someplace I now cannot find. However, I do have some nice ‘shroom photos to start things off!

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