We took ourselves to Kings Yard near the Galtees today, and walked up a nearby trail next to a river. It was lovely there, so quiet except for the sound of the rushing water! There weren’t many mushrooms around yet but we spotted a bunch of them near the end of our walk and I…

A mushroom hiding in the undergrowth somewhere in the Galtee Mountains a year ago.

An Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita [*] in the grounds of Blarney Castle yesterday. It’s a poisonous mushroom found throughout temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, according to Wikipedia. It’s also poisonous, but these days death from ingestion is rare. It has psychoactive uses too, and it’s…

A mushroom in the Autumn leaves in the Galtee Mountains.

Mushrooms growing in the wilds of the Galtee Mountains.

Clusters of mushrooms growing out of an old tree trunk by a small river.

Here’s one of my attempts at a mushroom photo, focus stacked from 4 roughly the same images. This sort of photography is really hard isn’t it? You have to get down really low which is a problem itself if you don’t have a tripod to suit. An extension tube is a requirement as I don’t…

Mushrooms in the roots Mushrooms grow from the roots of a tree in Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork. I just loved the colour and texture of the fungus, especially in the light of the sunset behind me.