From The Prehistoric To The Current

I was studying some fossils yesterday.  Apparently I need to do more studying/learning because I found out that spiders and scorpions existed during the Cretaceous period.  I suppose if I think about it, it makes sense...other arthropods existed then...I just never thought about spiders doing so, and definitely not scorpions.  I also came across a beautiful trilobite.  (By "came across" I mean bumped into white visiting a museum). Here are the fossils of said creatures...

Today I was walking through Ormeau Park in Belfast.  I found a patch of mushrooms.  By no means am I an avid mushroom identifier, but after some research, I believe these to be panaeolus sphinctrinus.  Any awesome and capable mushroom identifiers out there?  Am I right in my assumption?  Or perhaps I found a new species? Eh eh?

Mushroom Forest

Today's subject became part of a delicious spaghetti dinner.  There are few better spaghetti sauces than ones that are a combination of every vegetable you have laying around.  And so the mushrooms I had sitting in my fridge doubled as my subject and my dinner.

Mushroom Forest

At the risk of sounding like some Mario level, I shall call this photo Mushroom Forest.  This image is worth two extra lives.

Mushrooms Before Swine

...Or at least mushrooms under swine.  It didn't take long for Confucius the Pig to make his way into one of my photos.  Here he is playing "King of the Mushroom."