Unusual
This Challenge was particularly hard for me. But I came up with three things that I thought were unusual. The first thing was this strange looking fungus.
It is the most unusual fungus I have ever run across. It was about four inches across and about four inches out, kind of like a round ball, and sort of hairy!
The second unusual thing I encountered was a SCUBA shop. Here is the sign in front of the shop.
Now what is unusual about a SCUBA shop you may ask? We are three hundred miles from the ocean. I don't even know anybody who dives. Who goes to this store anyway???
And finally I give you roses. Roses in October. Two days before November. Roses don't bloom in Pennsylvania in October. Instead we get frigid weather and sometimes snow. So here I give you unusual:
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Great choice Krissy!! The fungus looks like something from another planet. I did laugh when I read how far you are from the ocean and that shop selling scuba gear. The roses are beautiful. You are lucky with those, ours are long gone xxxxx
ReplyDeleteThis was a hard challenge wasn't it Krissy!!
ReplyDeleteHad me thinking all week, then I just took the flower pic this morning.
Loving your pics though, that fungus is very unusual, if a little cute, like a little guinea pig or something!! Totally get the scuba one too, we have an indoor ski slope where I live, like we all want to go skiing!! The roses are beautiful :o)
Sara x
Great pics ...............
ReplyDeleteDon't need the sea for scuba diving any lake will do even a river!
Name of fungus is on tip of my tongue.................
http://journals.aol.co.uk/sdrogerson/SpecimenDays/
The fungus looks like a puffball...some stuff about puffballs...
ReplyDelete" Puffballs are round or pear-shaped fruiting bodies that contain spores. They sit directly on the ground or on rotten wood. They range from golf ball size to as large as a watermelon. A big specimen of the giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea) can be almost two feet long and contain 7,000,000,000,000 (7 trillion) spores. For comparison, there are about 31.6 million seconds in a year. If you held your breath for 7 trillion seconds, you’d be breathless for 221, 817 years!
The giant puffball cracks open to allow the wind to carry away its spores. Other puffballs have a small opening at the top. The wind may suck spores out of these openings like smoke drawn from a chimney. The spores can also be “puffed” out of the opening when the fruiting body is hit by raindrops (earth stars, for example). "
I had to learn about fungus when I was at university so I actually find this interesting! lol...
love Amy
PS sorry I didnt take part in this weeks scavenger hunt :(
You're really good. Three great ones for photos and reasoning. Loved this. My favorite so far.
ReplyDeleteAngela
oh that was awesome. I loved your entries!!! Scuba shop...that's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteNice! I haven't done this one yet. I am so behind.
ReplyDeleteScuba shop huh? I wouldn't have thought of one in your part of the country. Maybe for lakes? I don't know.
ReplyDeleteThat fungus was something else!
I haven't been able to post any pictures. Seems I'm having some techincal difficulties, sigh.
Monica
A most awesome collection of entries. You are becoming quite the photographer. I'm sad to say I shall be a tad tardy with my assignment. Will I get docked points? Such lovely ones this time too. Toodles.
ReplyDeletelovely collection, I love all of them :)........Jules xxx
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LOLOL Scuba shop!! Too funny!! I really like that! Now who goes to that shop? The garden is beautiful. I too found some flowers here and there, but nothing that astoundingly beautiful -- yes, too rare for this time of year! Great, great photos, and yes, unusual!!! Good job, honey!!
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Costal America plans to conquer the interior. We meet at Scuba shops to plan our uprising.
ReplyDeleteLOL - don't you know? There are scuba "crazies" everywhere. I've done it...it's awesome. What I can't understand though, is that some people love it so much they'll scuba in a lake or a quarry. After being on a reef, it has to be VERY anti-climatic.
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