Toadstools and Compost Heap

All around town...on the lawn at the college, on a grassy corner of a curb downtown, and tucked in the ivy surrounding our well house...rise clusters of large, white toadstools. The one pictured in the first two snapshots measures eight inches high and six inches across. In the second photo, our well house seems to rise like a brown toadstool in the background.









In the other three snapshots, a bunch of discarded impatiens, and a single day lily come alive in our compost heap in the backyard. A squash plant thrives there, too, its trailing vine creeping out into the yard, bearing a butternut squash almost mature enough to pick and eat.