Wet and mouldy

You would think that living in the subtropics we would be well used to lots of rain - well think again! We love our blue skies and dry weather - how else can be get out and about and enjoy this gorgeous part of the world! But just lately the skies have taken to tormenting us with lots (and lots) of rain. So much that I am glad we did not put solar panels on our roof to provide us with electricity!
Saturday was a real "doozy" of a wet day.

It had rained for a week before Colin and I took ourselves off for a few days to Lennox Head and we were lucky to have some days that were not quite sunny, but pleasant enough to go exploring. We arrived home to   almost non stop rain.

These shots were taken from the protection of the back (upstairs) veranda where I ventured out to see whether the water would come high enough to get into our shed where we keep the trailer and Paul's hobby car - which is in bits. You can just see the shed on the left next to our rain water tank. The rain did not come above the ridge  by those two trees so no worry to the contents of the shed.
That green stuff on the surface of the water is a small leafed water weed, the fence between us and our next door neighbour's property was enough to act as a dam to hold it back. When the water does go down that week will remain but it will be a good fertilizer for the lawn! It will be a bit messy and rather slimey for a while but it will go eventually.

This shot shows more clearly the water week - those tree trunks mark the edge of the block of land, the actual creek is on the other side of them.
The next morning the rain had eased (a bit!) and with an umbrella in one hand and the little Samsung camera in the other I ventured down into the squelchy back yard with the two dogs to give them a bit of exercise and to see what fungi I could find. After rain the wood heap is a great source of fungi!

From the shiny nature of the wood you can tell that it is still raining! The wood is completely saturated. Everyday there are different fungi among the cut timber - they only last a few hours before they are gone.

This was a great find - but the photo is deceptive - the fungi are very small so to begin with I almost didn't notice them. Each of those little caps would be about the size of a finger nail - the camera was switched to MACRO mode to take them - the trouble with a point and shoot camera is that you cannot control the amount of flash. Being close to these delicate little things the flash has removed a lot of the detail from them.
What will I see tomorrow? Maybe nothing special at all - but I shall still venture out with the camera!
AJ