Snowman who loves Amanitas

Lol, those of you who know me know that I love photographing mushrooms. The one mushroom that is on my Wish List is the bright red Fly Agaric, which we don't get here. Ours are either yellow or orange-yellow with the white flecks - still beautiful to see. Needless to say, my youngest daughter, with her brilliant ability to choose gifts that are exactly right for each person, succeeded in finding this perfect one for me two Christmases ago. It stands maybe 2" tall and is just so cute. This is just a very quick shot I took.

I hope everyone who celebrates Christmas has had a lovely few days. Here, we had roughly 7" of new snow, so we definitely had a white Christmas. It was also very cold. This morning, 27 December 2016, it is only -1C (windchill -7C), which is good, because there is another Christmas Bird Count today, SW of the city. According to the weather forecast, we should have a few days of these milder temperatures and then we plunge back to very cold again.