Tiny orange parasol

It was so lucky that a friend discovered this tiny orange fungus (macro shot) when we were on a botanizing trip to Spirit Rocks Sanctuary near Rimbey, Alberta, on June 26th. This is a forest north of the city, that is under The Nature Conservancy of Canada and belongs to Joanne Susut. Joanne inherited this land, which she has named Spirit Rocks Sanctuary, from her parents and has donated it to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. It was about two and a half hours' drive north of Calgary, to near Rimbey. The day started off with rain and ended with rain, but luckily not a drop fell while we were walking. Four of us went from Calgary and we met up with three delightful and very knowledgable ladies there. Thanks so much, Joanne, for letting us explore your land - we appreciated it greatly and enjoyed spending this time with you and your friends.

I have seen several mushrooms at various places, but not the photogenic kind, at all! I guess it is still fairly early in July and the peak of the fungi season isn't till August. Even so, I would have thought that we'd have seen a few more than we have seen by now. There was a day trip today to one of my favourite forests, but I decided I wouldn't even bother to go to the meeting place, as no one else turned up yesterday, apparently, for a botanizing day to another of my favourite places - neither of which I can drive to, and even if I could, I know I'd never find my way out of the forest back to my car, ha!