My front yard has exploded with mushrooms. I counted thirty-four of them just now. It’s neat to see them rise up, get bigger, then flatten out like an opened umbrella.
Phillip and I had an IM conversation about mushrooms which devolved.
[13:48:29] me: i just counted 34 mushrooms
[13:48:43] him: have you ever done shrooms?
[13:48:46] me: no
[13:48:50] me: im about to
[13:48:56] him: those aren’t the right ones
[13:48:59] him: I know how to find them
[13:49:06] him: one day when I was bored at work
[13:49:09] me: i bet theyll make me hallucinate before i die
[13:49:10] him: I read all about them
[13:49:27] him: mushrooms are cool
[13:49:30] me: yeah
[13:49:34] him: so delicious
[13:49:36] me: heterotrophic
[13:49:41] me: sessile organisms
[13:49:44] him: and they grow so fast
[13:49:48] me: yea
[13:49:55] me: weird
[13:50:11] him: there’s this other plant that grows really fast
[13:50:16] me: bamboo does
[13:50:16] him: called a century plant
[13:50:28] him: once every few years it sends up a stalk
[13:50:33] him: that grows like 6 inches in a day
[13:50:39] him: I used to see them in florida
[13:50:39] me: like a plant hard on
[13:50:53] him: ya, within a few weeks
[13:50:58] him: it would send up a 12 foot stalk
[13:51:03] him: that would bloom and fall over
[13:51:13] me: right..like a plant hard on
[13:51:17] him: hehe
[13:51:22] him: you’re such a retard
[13:51:31] me: i always bloom before i fall over
[13:51:45] him: come to think of it, it was purple as well
[13:51:54] me: gross
[13:51:58] him: haha
I, too, love looking at the wild mushrooms that sprout up in the park near our house. They’re the flat brown kind though, not nearly as dramatic looking.
very cool pic