Shrooms

Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of underground fungi.  These fungi can cover many acres, and can be very long-lived -- one colony has an estimated age of 2400 years, and covers 2200 acres.  My south pasture contains a fungus that produces mushrooms after heavy rains.  Between July 22 and 29 we had 3.18" of rain, but even more importantly, we had at least .44 inch of rain on five of those eight days.  This ensured that the soil stayed moist -- ideal conditions for mushroom growth.  And grow they did -- there must be a hundred of them scattered throughout my pasture.  The weather has now returned to its hot, dry default state -- ideal for the spores to blow away and spread to new locations.  It's always good to know that somebody (and it's not humans) has it all figured out.