It happened last year. On the 28th of December 2023.
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When I say "last year" it sounds like I'm talking about a long time ago but less than two weeks have passed since then, actually.
In this opening photograph, you can see the yellow autumn foliage of the Morus nigra tree.
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Here you can see one of the roads that lead through the pretty large suburban forest park called Busoler.
The forest of Busoler is situated right behind the last houses of a homonymous suburban neighborhood of Pula
Pula is for me the nearest city, only ten kilometers from where I live. When there is something I can't buy or do in Medulin, my hometown, I drive to Pula.
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Almost always after the shopping or whatever I have to do in the city is done, I take the opportunity to visit the forest park and take a few photographs along the way.
One of the entrances to Busoler is situated along the road that leads out of the city, towards a few villages and goes through my hometown as well.
That's where I usually enter the forest park.
In the above photograph, you can see the trunks of the tall Pinus brutia trees.
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More or less in the middle of my little journey through the forest, I came across a mushroom. That explains the title of this thing I'm trying to put together and publish. To be consistent with the theme of the mushroom in the middle, I decided to put the photographs that show the central mushroom, right in the middle of today's post.
Here I zoomed in a bit so you can take a better look at the top of the mushroom's cap. In the following photograph ...
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... the same mushroom is photographed from an angle that shows the white gills under the cap.
When it comes to the name of the species, I can tell you that this is the Lepiota subincarnata fruiting body. It's a poisonous mushroom.
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Here you can see a small clearing where a tree stood until recently.
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As I was exiting the forest the weather was changing from completely, uniformly cloudy to partially cloudy with occasional outbursts of sunlight.
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A man with a Bull Terrier whom I met earlier on my walk was also on his way out of the woods when I was unlocking my car.
