OUR WORLD - The Secret Life of . . .

pine mushrooms that are happiest living on or 

around pine stumps.

Some are hermits but they are rare

some snuggle up like lovers and shun all others

others prefer suburban living

  

yet others crowd together in fear

there are those who find more elevated habitations

fearful of the rising waters of global warming

and caring mothers protecting their children

until the time comes to let go of this life and return 

back into the earth.

From a walk in a pine plantation. I was hoping for edible 

mushrooms but unfortunately the forest department, in it's wisdom?

had sprayed some dreadful poison last spring and killed not only

the habitat of all the little birds who spent their winters here and 

bred in spring, but also the dozens of varieties of mushrooms  that

used to grace the forest floor.

Next time I may post the forest itself.