#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
Umbrella, Parasola
“Commonly referred to as the Pleated Inkcap, and sometimes as the Little Japanese Umbrella, Parasola (formerly Coprinus) plicatilis is a very delicate member of the inkcap group of fungi. It occurs in short grass.
This is one of the many short-lived grassland fungi that appear overnight following rain; the fruitbodies develop, expand, shed their spores and decay within 24 hours and by the next morning there is usually no evidence of them ever having existed.”
First, a pink sunrise over the river.
I walk and walk and nothing strikes my fancy.
Home across the meadow, into my yard, the little parasol perched in the grass.
By tomorrow this little beauty will be gone.
