A Morphing Mushroom & Feedback!

This mushroom looked blue-green in situ

I found the strangest mushrooms this morning. They looked blue-green in situ from one angle — green from another. From another angle, they looked lavendar. After I brought them inside, they looked gray with a hint of purple with splotches of ugly green.

I described them to my sister on the phone and she burst out laughing — and accused me of sampling funny mushrooms causing me to see all those different colors. 😀

I’ve gone nuts trying to identify them. I think they might be Cortinarius caerulescens. They have a rusty brown spore print. Poisonous. I’m waiting for a positive ID on my mushroom board.

Or maybe it’s a Stropharia. Stropharius?

Another one

I also found a few other tiny mushrooms I am not even going to try to identify right now, but will post photos because they are cute. Well… to someone who thinks mushrooms are cool, anyway. 🙂

I just heard from the RV repair guy. He will be out tomorrow to install the new furnace motor!

And I’m planning to wash the Casita tomorrow. It’s growing algae on its belly band.

I got the nicest email from a reader a few minutes ago. After she saw my Hopping John

Here it looks lavendar.

photo (previous post) and saw the ingredients listed on one of the comments, she made a mad dash to the grocery store after work and bought the ingredients and made a batch. She loved it! She said they ate it Friday and Saturday for dinner, and she had the rest of it for lunch today.

I can’t tell you how that delighted me — because it’s a recipe I just made up. I like canned Hopping John, but it’s too watery. So I just guessed at the ingredients I would need to duplicate the flavor, added sausage to make it a main dish… and we loved it. So the fact that someone else liked my version really tickled me!