IT'S ALREADY AUTUMN
And so autumn has arrived. Not that I'm complaining, but I'm not particularly fond of this season (or winter, for that matter 😞). It's gray, gloomy, the days are getting shorter, and then there's the time change—it's madness.
I'm turning into a malcontent.😉
Admittedly, I haven't given up photography, and we even had a photography day in Wrocław recently - “Magia Natury” (Magic of Nature) organized by our Lower Silesian District of the Polish Nature Photographers' Union (ZPFP) - it was fantastic.
Ahead of us is the “Visions of Nature” festival in Izabelin (November 15-16) - a two-day event organized every year by the ZPFP - a feast for the eyes and ears (numerous lectures).
But that's no reason to sit at home waiting for Izabelin, and it's a sign that we've gotten carried away.
Indeed, we got carried away!
Taking advantage of the fact that autumn is relatively “golden,” we went to our favorite place near Wrocław.
It is a place so charming that at any time of the year we find something interesting to photograph and show.
As autumn is the season with the most mushrooms - but not only that.
The team consisted of: Małgosia, Asia, Andrzej, and me (Marek), i.e., the “geriatric circle” - the group is complemented by a bribable dog named Walker, nicknamed Łokieć. Those who have read the post ATTEMPTED CORRUPTION know what I mean.
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| Małgosia |
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| Andrzej |
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| Asia and the "bribable dog" |
We arrived. There were quite a lot of cars in the parking lot - after all, it's mushroom season, so it's time for group trips to the forests.
For us, this is rather a disadvantage, but we don't have any baskets, and besides, we are looking for a slightly different “prey.”
It started off quite nicely with the discovery of a few mushrooms growing on cut tree trunks stacked in piles.
This time, I'm not going to fool around and try to find the species names because it's not that easy, and why should I risk misleading people? Mushrooms - and that's it.
The most interesting one was a mushroom growing in the center of a cut stump, which Andrzej examined quite closely and photographed. Well, it looked like... a mushroom, and that's it!
Below is the result of Andrzej's work.
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| Photo: Andrzej Rapak |
Even the stump, which in the past was home to Great Capricorns - although dead, it now serves as a breeding ground for various types of fungi - Gosia practiced here.
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| Małgosia |
Łokieć was the least interested in the photos, dragging Asia through the forest following Andrzej - in the hope that he might get something.
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| Asia and Walker |
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| Andrzej accompanied by his "victim""😂 |
There were quite a lot of mushrooms, but we can't show all the ones we photographed because it would be a long and boring series. So just a few more.
After a fairly large dose of mushrooms, we started “hunting” for slime molds. These are quite strange creatures - sorry for the euphemism, but they are not mushrooms (yet not animals), despite the fact that they have the ability to move.
No, don't be afraid! They don't run around on tree trunks and they won't chase us through the forest - they can just move slowly - more like amoebas, so they're not exactly sprinters. 😉😂😂
Below are a few examples of Mother Nature's creativity.
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| Photo: Andrzej Rapak |
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| Photo: Andrzej Rapak |
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| Photo: Małgosia Gęgotek-Rapak |
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| Photo: Małgosia Gęgotek-Rapak |
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| Photo: Małgosia Gęgotek-Rapak |
While photographing one of them (slime molds), we noticed small beetles, which we mistook for some kind of growth on the slime molds until they moved.
They were tiny—about a millimeter long—but they shone as if they were made of polished steel!
Anyway, when we started looking closely, we found more
different kinds of animals.😀
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| Photo: Małgosia Gęgotek-Rapak |
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| Photo: Andrzej Rapak |
But believe me, we don't care - we like our “crazy” company.
Well, nobody's perfect 😁😂😂😎
Photos: Marek Czubaszek - unless otherwise stated.
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