Blue Mushroom

Recently we were surprised to find blue mushrooms beneath white pines on our daily walk near our lake home in North-Central Minnesota. Research on-line allowed identification of it with reasonable confidence as the indigo milk cap (Lactarius indigo). We first noticed this indigo milk cap September 5, 2024. You can see that it is right …

Rainbow

These pictures were taken looking west across our lake around 8AM on September 6, 2024. There was a slight rain shower to the west with sunlight from the east hitting the raindrops. Sunlight is reflected back towards the observer by the raindrops. Because of the refractive index of water, the wavelength of light, and the …