Remember earlier this week I asked you to guess what this funky looking thing might be?  BTW, good guess Kendall, http://www.lonelilly.com/ 

Drum roll PLEASE!!!……..

Do you recognize these mushrooms?  It’s a SHITAKE block!  How cool is that?  I got it at our Farmers Market last weekend for a whole $2.50.  We have some folks here that grow mushrooms and they have created these mushroom blocks.  All you do is submerge in water for a day, then set it in a damp, dark place.  I put mine in the backyard on the northwest side of a big tree.  I took some great pictures of the other mushrooms just to show you how spectacular they really are!

I should be able to get 2 or 3 growths on each log and then they fall apart.  The base is made of wood shavings so I assume it will just go to my garden compost pile. 

AND, as you can see, I have all my ducks in a row. . . . . .