Conditions are right!

   Back when Hurricane Zeta rolled through and did major damage to the Bayou area, the debris was endless.  It still is endless but progress is being made.  The decision to cut the smaller stuff into a mulch worked out rather well.   After pulling all trash and boards from the mounds, I used an old lawnmower to literally cut the stuff to a fine mulch.  The wheelbarrow was used to tote the stuff up the hill where it was dumped into the garden and pathways. Now that the debris mulch is starting to decay a bit, it is becoming a delightful mix of fertile soil.  It is sort of the ultimate of recycling.  

  The rich soil, warm weather and copious fog has made the fungi around here spring up like bad weeds.  The whole hillside is starting to look like a gigantic faerie garden with toadstool benches everywhere.  Mushrooms of every color, shape and size are pushing their way through the one foot thick layer of mulch. 

  It does make me wonder where all the spores came from since the place was covered with water during the storm and, if the spores stayed on the ground, how in the world are they pushing through that thick mulch?  Fungi is resilient, for sure!  If the conditions are right, the mushrooms grow. They are, indeed, amazing creations.