Just enough to keep tabs on my time

 Seriously unable to do much due to an eye problem. Dry eyes are nothing to fool around with. And being away from home with no sunglasses was a mistake I won’t make again. 

It’s going to be awhile before I can dig into anything but organizing collections befir being able to curate them. Simply can’t strain my eyes so much. It’s ok. I have so much organizing to do that it’ll take up a significant stretch of time in and of itself. 

But my correspondence is dropping off. 

Hoping to go to the forest awhile too but temps remain warm so even though I’m

Waiting for the museum to ship my stuff back it’s ok because it’s probably too dry to stumble upon mushrooms which is a major photography event once it’s cooler and there’s more rain. 

As it is we have fires and smoke fills the air and it gives me headaches to be out innit. 

A few mushroom photos from other seasons. 

Note to self: Forgive typos I can’t see very well. 

Summer is dwindling away now. Soon mushrooms will be seen in cozy dark spaces in woods and under pines. Excitement for another season won’t disappoint.

Checkered lily

A very unusual suzani 

Kind of that dark cool look as mushroom time

Puddha would like this dark spot to sleep

The mountain covering itself

Dark and restful

I miss Summertime, but I'm falling into autumn...finally... so beautiful..corn lily is on the way out, but mushrooms are on the way in..

I love to find them pushing out of the ground, all dirty, and shrugging off their earthiness..such power and determination..

Below is the Chicken of the Woods, found at Rialto Beach one year. It had to be more than 50 lbs of mushroom, in perfect fresh condition. I didn't know then that it was edible. I may go looking for it again.

A leaf pattern tree of life suzani celebrates fall 

and...colors pop to life before diving into a restful season..

Below, The Corn Lily in regal black and white, has shed it's poisonousness, and said, goodnight..

It's Pumpkin and Spider Time, Mushroom and Apple Cider Time and Time for Shakti to pay Another Visit Time

My dear friend from Italy, Shakti. 

She was here in the fall some years ago. 

We had so much fun. 

What a beautiful woman she is and such a nice photo. 

Shakti teaches meditation and non duality in Italy and other places. 

I miss you, come back!!

A quote from Shakti.

It's always true. I resonate with this completely.

"Life is a beautiful ride. It goes up and down, it goes round and round and at times it looks like you are stuck in a traffic jam, so just when you get angry and tired a yellow flower smiles at you and then again you go ahead and again another peack, another mountain, another flat moment. It is never the same and it is for free. Enjoy it all, it is all for you. A gift." Shakti Caterina Maggi

Thank you dearest Shakti!!

In italian

"La vita è come un bel giro in auto. Va su e giù, gira in tondo, a volte sembra che si sia bloccati in un ingorgo di traffico, e proprio quando ci si arrabbia e si è stanchi un fiore giallo ti sorride e di nuovo si va avanti, ancora un'altro picco, un'altra montagna, un altro momento piatto. Non è mai uguale ed è gratis. Goditi tutto, è tutto per te. Un regalo. " Shakti Caterina Maggi

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A Jewelers suzani. 

From the Silk Road. 

A pacific giant pumpkin. 

It didn't become giant though!

And a few shrooms in the yard. I think deer have been eating them here. 

Thank you Shakti for the lovely pic

And sending you big hugs.