© irene waters 2015
With the overnight rain we have been lucky to have (as it means we have perfect days) the funghi are popping up all over the place. Yellow and red seems to be the in colour this year.
© irene waters 2015
With butterflys showing similar colours.
© irene waters 2015
The traditionally coloured funghi are still around in large numbers however.
© irene waters 2015
© irene waters 2015
© irene waters 2015
And NO! This is not picking up doggy done it but rather collecting edible mushrooms which we ate for dinner. YUM!
In response to Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge
About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
I particularly like the presentation of the first two and the fifth, Irene.
janet
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My favourite is the 5th. I took oodles when I came across that patch of funghi from all different angles and obtained some good outcomes ( I think)
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You did, Irene.
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I love funghi especially the edible ones. Great in soups.
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Absolutely. Soups and stews. Though we eat them raw and on toast as well.
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That is one bright butterfly. Your photos are great for this week’s odd balls.
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Thanks Cee.
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Hate to be a nerd, but my dad will not get off my shoulder if I don’t point out that is a yellow tiger moth – the give away is the way it folds its wings. Butterflies mostly fold so the underside shows ie upright whereas moths show the top surface flat to the leaf or ground. There are exceptions but that is mostly true. Beautiful specimen mind you. And I’m far from an expert on Aussi moths (ie not at all) but the five brown spots on the wing suggest it is the tiger moth. Soz but my childhood was spent trailing the countryside hunting for butterflies and moths and it has rubbed off it seems! Beautiful photos too!
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I was just going to ask about the butterfly — that it looked like a moth. Scrolled down to comment, and here you are being a very helpful nerd. Thank you. Beautiful color yellow. Wow.
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Glad to be of service! It us stunning isn’t it?
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Good to have someone help out.
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I can remember your post about you with your butterfly net of searching. Thank you for finally explaining the difference between a moth and a butterfly. When I wrote butterfly I wondered if it was a moth but thought way too colourful. Now I know. My husband would have said “have you ever heard of the internet?” but if I had I still probably wouldn’t have know why. Thanks
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a lot of people think the difference is just nocturnal/diurnal but your beauty is one of many exceptions so wing hinging is a better if not fallible method.
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I was just going to ask if any were edible! One of the most wonderful days I had when we were living in Czechoslovakia (at that time) was one of mushroom hunting and then a wonderful outside meal of sauteed mushrooms and scrambled eggs. I would love to do this here, but we have many more poisonous ones here. Do you have any poisonous fungi?
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Yes more than edible. All those pictured were of the non edible variety and only the ones that weren’t really visible that Roger was picking were. We go on the principle that if it looks like a mushroom, smells like a mushroom, and the skin can be peeled the odds are is that it is edible. One day we may find out that we are wrong but so far it has worked for us.
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It’s a colorful flutter-bug nonetheless! I’ve not seen one so yellow. I think of moths as drab in color, sort of like beige fungi. And the last photo is funny — he really does look like he’s on dog done duty!
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Great photos. It reminds me of Austria where we used to go up the mountain to pick specialist mushrooms.
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There is nothing quite like fresh mushrooms. 🙂
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Glad that was cleared up about the butterfly/moth…but what an absolutely beautiful colour, not sure I’ve ever seen one like that before, normally only of the plain brown variety! You are brave picking and eating mushrooms Irene, I don’t know the difference and would be terrified of picking poisionus ones. I wrote about my relationship with mushrooms in my memoir piece actually…we used to live across the road from a mushroom farm who also had peacocks. Say no more 😉
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Yes I love that Geoff has finally given me a almost foolproof way of knowing whether a flutterer is a butterfly or a moth. As for mushrooms we are probably stupid and one day will pay for it. We work on the principle that if it looks and smells like a mushroom and you can peel it most likely it is a mushroom.
did you have peacocks on your roof? They can be noisy things although beautiful to look at.
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