21/365: "Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. " ~ Homer

Another bright and sunny morning, frosty and twinkling in the early light, I set off to get pictures of teasel for my picture of the day. But while I was making my way around the stands of teasel, I noticed something orange and looked down to find this pair of mushrooms, who glowed warmly at me and melted my resolve. How could I resist these charmers?!

Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. When he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC, while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC. Modern researchers appear to place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC. Wikipedia: Homer