Little Glowy Mushrooms!

  Today never really happened.  Mother Nature decided that we should live in darkness so she rolled in the clouds, dumped copious amounts of rain on us and threw in a couple of fun things like tornadoes and waterspouts. The clouds were dark, rolling type that just kept coming.  Needless to say, there was not a lot of roaming about the hillside.  Going a bit stir crazy inside, I slipped out to the greenhouse.  (Probably not the safest place to be while tornado sirens are sounding but I figured that one place was as good as another. Besides, in between downpours I could slip out and pick the figs that were growing just outside the greenhouse!)

  It was during one of the torrential downpours that I noticed the sky darkened to almost pitch black but two tiny mushrooms were just as visible (if not more so) than they were with the slight bit of light filtering through the windows.  Ok, that was just too adorable!  These two mushrooms were growing in a flowerpot that held the Night-blooming Cereus. While everything else in the greenhouse was shrouded in darkness, the mushrooms were like little nightlights!  I wondered why I had never seen these before but that was easily explanable.  Two things came to mind.  One, the mushrooms just popped up since all of this rain and, two, I am rarely in the greenhouse after dark!  Well, that made sense.

  The way I figure is that even though Mother Nature was being a bit contrary today, she decided that one little bit of nicety never hurt anyone.  She let the tiny mushrooms appear at the perfect time to add a bit of happiness to my day.  Despite the ornery weather that pounded the Bayou, I was able to find the one (literal) bright spot and that was right in my greenhouse!  No wonder this is one of my favorite places to be!