September brings magical sights... mushrooms and flowers!

 I would like to share with you what I saw in Brightwood Park the first 3 days of September. 

So many mushrooms!  A colony of white-colored mushrooms reminded me of what I saw in petri dishes and under microscopes when I worked in cell biology labs many years ago.  Some were like cells multiplying.  A symmetric pair was like an illustration of cell division in textbooks.  There were also hairy mushrooms near the dam that I found a few days ago.  With some imagination, "Halloween mushrooms" on the trail along Prospect Street wore spooky faces.

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 Greeting mushroom friends has become my daily routine since August 28.  The variety of the creatures were amazing to me.  New ones continued to pop up and made me feel like being in a magic kingdom.  Plants also joined the party by presenting their beautiful flowers and fruits.

Of particular interest are the mushrooms with shapes going beyond common perception of what mushrooms usually appear like.  Next to the hairy mushrooms near the dam, a new one is in the shape like a genie bottle in the Arabian Nights tales.  Another one looked like a tiny beast carrying a baby on the back, and the baby crawled on the head of the mom to explore the world.