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It stopped raining for a little bit and when Jimbo went outside, he found these fairy rings (you can't see some of the small mushrooms that were coming up, but it was a fairly complete ring). Also, if you'll notice, the grass of the *ring* is darker than the grass inside or out.

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My bags are packed, I'm ready to go

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Have some neat pics of the Indian mounds/'park/nature trail that I'll post later.

:), i walked past one of these yesterday, a little early i thought, may be due to the heavy rain. aandrew.

I saw some in our yard yesterday also.

That is a beautiful cat, love her markings !

HappyElaine wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 7:07am:

I saw some in our yard yesterday also.

That is a beautiful cat, love her markings !

That is BB (short for bitchy baby) and she is a Snowshoe Siamese and she's Jimbo's owner ;D. We also have her full sister, Callie (who is a callico), and both her half-brothers, Graybaby and Littleboy (who is also a snowshoe siamese).

I never heard of this for real. How does it occur? Are they a big patch that grows and people pick them all excpet the ones in a ring? If not that is pretty wild...

I haven't seen a fairy ring in years, i can't tell you how much it means to see one via your pictures today. I really, really needed a boost today and I should have known, no matter what, as usual you can lift me Carolyn

lots of love and thanks
Helen xxx

wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 10:18am:

Look in the front yard Helen. There is often one out there and there may be the remnants of one.

-P.

superhawk2300 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 9:24am:

I never heard of this for real. How does it occur? Are they a big patch that grows and people pick them all excpet the ones in a ring? If not that is pretty wild...

The ring is from a single plant (fungus) The fungus grows outward in the ground from a common point. As the fungus gets larger and when conditions of nutrients and water are right the fungus goes into a reproductive phase and sprouts mushrooms at the perimiter of the plant. You often notice that the grass is quite lush where the shrooms pop up and this is because the fungus is decomposing the organic material in the soil and freeing nutrients locked in the organig material.

-P.

That is so cool! I love learning new stuff like this that I can use to alienate my know-it-all self from the rest of society!

I prefere to think of them as magic and imagen the little people dancing there in the moonlight, don't get caugth trying to peek at them though, they don't like that.

Great photos Carolyn ;)

Wow, that's pretty neat! I have never heard of this before either! Thank you for sharing!

Jeannie

I prefer Tanya's explanation! In fact, when I was out there taking the pictures, I found myself being careful not to step on the ring ;)!

Here are pics of BB's siblings.

Callie, her full sister

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Littleboy (half to callie and bb, full to Graybaby)

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Littleboy and Graybaby chill out together.

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The hunt is on

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Now, on to some more nature pics!

My dream house!

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It even has flow-through ventilation!

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The hill coming up from one of the nature paths at the Natchez Indian mounds.

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Along the trail
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Paul98 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 10:39am:

superhawk2300 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 9:24am:

I never heard of this for real. How does it occur? Are they a big patch that grows and people pick them all excpet the ones in a ring? If not that is pretty wild...

Paul you are just way too smart.

Ree who wants a fairy ring for herself but with real fairies that clean and paint...

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