Mushroom Time

I stepped out of the car and was disgusted to see that someone had dumped their bagels out and left them there. Then I remembered Irish people generally don’t eat bagels.

These are mushrooms.

In our part of Ireland, the mushrooms bloomed in September. We live near Ards Forest Park and rambled through the mushroom forests as often as we could. 











I don't know the names of many mushrooms, but they are friendly despite the lack of an introduction.

The Amanita muscaria bloomed everywhere. They don't even seem to be rare here. 

I loved the different species and colors showing up together.  



Mushrooms on trees. 

Mushrooms on mushrooms. 

That red dot is a rowan berry, which ripen at the same time as the mushrooms. The rowan tree: another of Ireland's treasures, a beauty in every season.