Found in Nature

Whenever my human and I come across something in nature that seems a little odd she usually takes a photo of it. Here are a few examples of some of the things that I mean. This isn't the extent of it. I am saving some of the better ones to be the subject for future posts.




For instance, we found this in Golden Gate Park almost all the way out by the beach. What kind of mushroom is this? There are three distinctly brilliant colors, and it is striped. We looked on the web for other examples like this and did not find any. It it edible? We don't know. Neither of us were willing to test it.











Then there is this...

We found this in the Presidio by an abandoned army bunker. Is it just me, or does it look like wooden human toes sprouting up from the ground?






Now check this out...

She took this shot with her camera phone, so it is a little hard to see. Just so you know what you are looking at here, that retaining wall is larger than most people are. See the white part capping the pile of mulch? That ain't snow. That is a giant spider web.

We took a long shot so you could understand the scale of it. The actual web is probably over 20 square feet large, but to get a photograph of all of it we would have had to walk out onto the wood chip pile. Was kind of spider or spiders made such a large web? We weren't going to get close enough to find out.