Dinner plate

While out for my perambulation yesterday lunchtime I had to do some mild photographic trespassing. There in a private field were a couple of mushrooms the size of dinner plates. 

No, really: 

They were about eight inches diameter and were part of a thirty foot fairy ring in the grass. I spent a couple of minutes trying to get a nice wide shot but came away with mushroom and dull sky. So I cheated.




Here is the mushroom and field with a much better sky I shot last year. That's more like it. I should sell this picture to the Mushroom Marketing Council.

Now, where's that frying pan?

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