Random Stuff – Mushrooms and Sunsets

These are some pics from the drive to/from Calaveras in the last post, along with all the mushrooms I found while there.

 

This is the remnants of the bubble before the recession. On highway 99 south of the Sacramento area is a development miles from anywhere. The speculative investors started building, expecting the sprawl to continue and surround this new mall. Then the sprawl stopped… ten miles away. So they lost tenants and couldn’t finish construction, leaving a decaying relic of our bad development decisions.

 

 

I really want to know what that tower thing was going to be

Up in the mountains even without much rain, mushrooms abounded. Here are oysters, not very fresh though

Not sure what this is, but check out the rust colored spores that have fallen onto its stem

These honey mushrooms have white spores

The mycelium here is the actual organism, the mushroom is just a fruit

An edible bolete

Fuzzy

Umbronate, inwardly concave

Some sierra quartz, see any gold veins?

Matsutake, very valuable in Asia

Sulfur mushrooms, young

And old

Dirty mushroom

Bolete hiding

There they are

Sunsets! My favorite

 

 

Bye bye

And end