Gills

We are having very stormy weather right now... officially gale force. Don't ask me what speed that is. I can only say that it made standing up straight a little difficult down by the sea today. I went down there to see about shooting crashing waves. No such luck! To start with the wind was so strong that it was difficult enough to hand hold the camera let alone erect a tripod, but it was the wrong wind. Instead of crashing the breakers onto the rocks, it blew from the West so all it did was to blow the white capd off the incoming waves and threaten to blow me into a watery grave.
I was standing there wondering what to do when my eye caught something white. Mushroom!!!!! Within an hour I was trundling back to the car with enough fine field mushrooms to do two dinners. The biggest one were 15cms (6inches) in diameter. The taste of freshly picked mushrooms knocks those supermarket things off the planet.
Here we have part of the lovely pink gills underneath the cap. This is the business end of a mushroom. Both an incubator unit for its spores and also the launch pad for their great adventure in the search for a suitable home of their own.