A nice couple of days with good weather, family, deer, honey bees, and things to photograph.

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The barn bees swarmed and I didn't have a hive ready. They were low and easy to get at too. 

Wildflower, A Lilly.  Brodiaea terrestris

(with tiny ants)

I pretty sure it's our native rhodie.  Rhododendron macrophyllum . Not spurge laurel (Daphne laureola), which is an invasive plant and looks similar to me when it's not flowering. 

  

Me, Daisy & my sister

Had to cut that Scotch Broom seedling!

Getting a camera card.

Daisy had fun as usual.

The wood duck nest box with a red shafted flicker borrowing it.

Schizophyllum commune. Each about the size of a quarter. It is the world's most widely distributed and the most studied mushroom in the world, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. Growing on a fallen oak.

Doe & faun

they seem to like this spot, as they are here just about every day.

Agaricus Augustus/smithii is now Agaricus subrufescens

Not Agaricus Augustus or smithii, but Agaricus subrufescens

This is a new one for me here.  Also called The Prince.Possibly A.smithii, but the season is wrong and the stem (stipe) does not bulge at the base. It seems to have features of both A.agustus and A.smithii so I'll guess at A.Augustus. Now id'd as Agaricus subrufescens. Found today (5/25/2013) under a sequoia by the bridge on our driveway. This is what those little button mushrooms you buy in the store aspire to be, but they will never get near as tasty.
We've positively identified around 135 different fungi here, but only a handful are edible and fewer still are really delicious. This is one of the winners even with an unsure i.d.. The cap is about 23cm's wide. This will give you a better feel for it's size:

Those are regular paper dinner plates. (white for the spore print)

Which was dark chocolate brown.

I'll cook them up now.

The sample was very tasty