Mark Roberts wrote: > frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've never seen so few messages as I have in the last day, especially > >overnight. I think there were two or three. Don't tell me everyone's > >out taking pictures! <g> > > Well I was on Sunday. Burned a ton of film on the most amazing > outcropping of fungus I've ever seen. I spotted it in a park on Saturday > while out for a run. It's this bright orange fungus that grows on > decaying trees and the like.
Sounds like sulpher shelf - yum! One of the 4 that are safe (really hard to confuse with anything else, let alone anything dangerous.) - and delicious. but don't eat it yet :) (I know, I know, you weren't going to anyway.) also called Chicken of the woods. (yeah, "tastes like chicken") However if your orange ones look like regular musrooms and are orange, stay a way those are Jack-O-Lanterns and NOT recommended for food :) Hurry up and post a snap, will ya? Then I'll come over for dinner... annsan > It was so bright and there was so much of > it I first thought someone had discarded a load of colored plastic or > something. I returned on SUnday in nice, overcast lighting. Hope I've > done it justice but I won't be able to pick up the slides until tomorrow > to find out. > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com