...pretty poison in the back field...

The fungi are popping up everywhere in the back field in all their wonderful colours....

...they are not for the mushroom salad I will make for our meal today!!!

But how amazing are the shapes and colours that we see...

...some of these have appeared for the first time this year...

...I can't bear to get rid of them...

...fortunately there are no little children running around here nowadays.

A Poem for Thursday...Poison.

After a gap of at least a year ...the fly agaric fungi are back...and in more numbers than ever.

Now I'm not unaware of the danger of these....deathly!!

...but they do hold a facination for me and a reluctance to throw them in the bin!!

...these exotic plants are succoured...if innocently ...by the Birch Grove in the field...each tree representing one member of the family...

...so the thoughts are there I'm sure you will realise of the many ways that relationships prosper or fail...within the family unit. 

...so the poem to go with it ......

Poison

Poison grows and spreads

in the garden.

Under the shivering birches

it grows.

Fiery and red 

it attracts my attention.

Birds and squirrels 

Sample it's wares.

But I am afraid

To touch it

Now.

So I leave it there

To prosper/ fester.

Just as Blake left the poison tree.

A Dark Facination remains

In me.

I've popped it on to you tube...but as it's my first foray into this medium...I've not yet discovered exactly how to put it with this post....

...so you will find it on the one before!!!!

I will succeed!!!

oh nearly forgot to link up with dVerse at the pub....

too much new stuff going on in my head!!

What the fungi are those?

A quick walk down the back field

 and lo and behold almost over night these have appeared!

Now I know that this is "fly agaric" and pretty darn poisonous but also magnificently beautiful.

                            .... look at the size of this cartwheel of a fungi!...

I know because I read up last time they appeared, that these are a product of the silver birch grove that we have in the field.

The animals / birds have already had a go at this one...why don't they die?

 Well of course, I hope they don't !

Turn your back and another lot seem to spring up...

This lot looks as if they could be edible...

...but I'm not going to have a go!

and look how dinky these ones below are...sweet little things...

Then all by itself this whopper!

 But gorgeous I think.

More fodder for some creature...could it be the field mice?

This one had such a super shiny brown top but was really small....

going...going...gone...

And here is my liebling one!

So tiny and actually lots of them but this photo came out best.

They are hidden in the Labyrinth.

Like drops of blood and snuggled in with the grasses and wild flowers that appear there