Magical Mermaids and Mushrooms

On another Sunday picnic up at camp, we decided to go on a mushroom photo hunt. We also went swimming and spotted a mermaid. What a magical day at camp.

Upon looking this up we found that this is not actually a fungi. It's a Ghost flower, or more specifically Monotropa uniflora.

more information on this interesting plant can be found here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora

I've enlarged our favorite finds and photographs:

We looked for Smurfette; no luck sadly....

nasty

No Papa Smurf here....

Here is our Mermaid.

Not a mermaid.

WOW!!! her tail must be super strong!

Daddy splashed our mermaid...

Maybe she is contemplating life, I don't know.

Big waterfall turned into small side waterfall, and now the big one is just an ugly tree in the water. now I'm happy we don't have a downed tree.