Tree Tuesday: Fairy’s Staircase
Walking the Malachite Trail in the SWA portion of the most wonderfully pristine Everglades watershed of the Grassy Waters Preserve, an old tree displayed new life with a whimsical fungi arrangement — a fairy staircase!
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FeyGirl
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Lovely words for the mushrooms. I loved the Everglades when I visited.
Thanks much! There’s so much to see in the ‘Glades; such a fascinating and varied ecosystem that spreads so very far (far beyond the actual designated parks!)….
Love it! I was out taking pictures of black birds the other day near a huge patch of shamrocks that looked like an elemental’s garden but this is even better!
Ah, how PERFECT!! I don’t know… I see such things everywhere. I tried to crawl into a swamp recently to shoot a fairy ring of shamrock, it was just sublime. Unfortunately I couldn’t…quite…reach it. 🙂 Not enough to get a good shot of it, anyways.
I love your title on this one..especially after talking about Ida Outhwaite..so it would be easy to visualize one of her fairy drawings with this idea!!
Isn’t it perfect timing? 🙂
This scene really WOULD fit in with her work… Sigh. Visions of those traditional artists floating in my head. They really had such fantastic imaginations, and a true love and respect of the natural kingdom.
Loving your captures – Cool:) Happy Tuesday!
Hee, thanks so much! It was a wonderful sight…. 🙂
So lovely. I can totally imagine fairies sitting there. 🙂
Can’t you? It’s just perfect. 🙂
Wonderful!
Happy Tree Tuesday!! 🙂
Hee, thanks so much!! Happy Tree Tuesday!!! 🙂
It does have magical qualities doesn’t it?
It really does! So much in Nature does, when one is looking…. 🙂
It’s cool to hang out with a mushroom, he’s such a fungi.
Okay, I know, I’m banned. Sorry.
I always return from a visit to the woods or marsh and can’t believe I didn’t take any fungus images. They are so varied and beautiful.
—->Note to self: do a fungus project.
Bwhhhhhaaaa!!!
Oh no… There’s always a place for you here, with my sense of humor. 🙂
I’m the same, honestly. I don’t encounter much fungus amongus (see?), but I need to capture it when I do stumble upon it. Tough sometimes, because it’s usually deep in the swamp…
Awwww! I was going to see if anyone had done the old fungus amongus line, and there it is! You never disappoint! It is a wonderful photo of a truly unique arrangement. As with so much in life, it’s the details – and the imagination – that count!
Heeee! I just couldn’t believe I held it in that long…. 🙂
You’re exactly right — there’s SO much to see in life, especially in these wonderful, beautiful natural spaces. It sets the imagination free, which I truly believe is why it’s so imperative (well, one of the trillion reasons) to preserve them.
Nice fairytale trees. Like the B&W very much..
Ah, thanks so much! I adore fairytale trees… I see them everywhere. 🙂 That first pic came from my little iPhone, crazy enough.
And she’s climbing a stairway to heaven.
Heh, absolutely, love it… 🙂
Lovely. Here’s a dryad’s saddle to go with the fairy staircases (I just love these names!): http://www.flickr.com/photos/debplatt/7222815976/
OMIGOSH!
Love, love, love it!! Did you come up with that name???
No, that’s really what they are called. 🙂
See this Wikipedia article on Polyporus squamosus.
WOW… That’s so perfect. Utterly perfect.
I just learned, from a fellow (Dutch) blogger artist friend, that those mushrooms I photographed are translated as “fairy couches” in her language. How sublime is that….
“Fairy couches” … very cool! I wouldn’t have guessed that fairies were a part of the Dutch folklore.
Ah, there were some AMAZING fairy artists / authors from the likes of Norway, Sweden…. all those northern climes. Probably all intermingled at some point!
I just ran into another fey name: Scarlet Elf Cup.
Ooooooh I love, love, LOVE it! And they’re so incredibly LOVELY!