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Hi Crystal...

wow...I missed popping by and see all kinds of wonderful work here...I love your renderings of women...you have a very distinctive style...I will think about a name for this piece...

Great work!

Diana

How about Nairi? Found it on the web searching for unique names. It's meaning—"country of rivers" or "river country"—semi-applies to her, but since she is fantastical, you could always make up a meaning that better fits her personality.

How about Harmonia? Literally it means "harmony" in Portuguese (and Spanish, I think) but I think it would make a lovely name for such a happy and peaceful creature, living so in tune with nature and music. Just an idea :-)
By the way, It's an absolutely beautiful drawing!

ReallY? Mac Leopard is having "issues"? Bummer. No, I do not have that, but my Mac has some of its own issues, such as quitting programs unexpectedly. Sort of a hormonal thing, I suppose. :)

Well, your drawing is lovely, but my brain is too fried toname anything tonite! I love her layered hairstyle and the butterfly nesting in her tendrils.

I am not sure about a name for her, but she is lovely. the soft shading and detailed line work makes for a lovely composition. And maybe not having a name just adds to her mystique. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome drawing. I like how wide the eyes are.

She's gorgeous! I heart that little ladybug XD

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Things are looking up I feel, I saw just a few mushrooms in the woods at the weekend and a not long dead partridge, which I wished you could of seen with its handsome coat of feathers

My heart always lies in the woods or at the sea but I would never dare to eat the fungi. When the children were younger we would get up early and go on mushroom hunts bringing home all sorts of stuff, checking their names against the mant books and taking spore prints. They would then be deposited at the bottom of the garden. After several years the mushrooms started to appear there as if by magic!

Hooray for the call of the woods :)
Glad you are enjoying my few blog words.. no it isn't THE accordion .. that is in pride of place in our living room, but alas has lost its singing voice for good I think. I play a snazzy new accordion that I bought wiv me own cash from painting jobs! Um pah um pah ... enjoy your mushrooms x

hello!!!!...I liked your blog!!...really...it´s very interesting....and I think your photos are excellent!!!!...

in those photos the autumn is beautiful...

best wishes!!!!...and have a nice day!!!

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I so admire you for knowing which fungus is edible and which isn't - I'm sure I'd end up poisoning myself! My mother used to take us mushrooming but I've forgotten all I was taught. It's a shame all the 'old' knowledge gets lost.

I hear you... Not much calls louder than wild mushrooms from the woods...

I bet wild mushrooms taste a world away from the beige plasticcy ones in Tescos, sweating under their cellophane.
That casserole looks good, too!

We are getting too alike you and I!
I was only picking some mushrooms last weekend and thinking that you would probably be doing the same thing....lo and behold!

I would be too scared to eat anything mushroom like unless I had a book like yours, I'd probably kill myself!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful shots of the mushrooms. You should be writing Gretel, you write so eloquently and have such a knack for up rooting beautiful words.

Ah thanks Eric, if only all the publishers I send my writing out to thought like you did...but alas, I mrely have a fine collection of rejection letters. :)

You've made me hungry now!

The mushrooms at the back of our house all look incredibly deadly - though I'm told by reliable sources (Hugh's mushroom man) that there isn't a deadly mushroom, just ones that make you wish you were dead... But I'm not even brave enough to go there!

We did find a stinkhorn in the woods, which was interesting and very phallic (made for some jokes...)!

I bet your meal was delicious - I don't blame you going off into the woods either, much prettier at this time of year :)

That lovely woodsy earthy smell wafting over from your parts, thanks for sharing it with us!
May your work run smoothly and an escape into the woods possible every now and then,
all the best,
M.

How wonderful to go out and collect mushrooms, somthing I have never done, and then make a feast with them, I'm feeling hungry now too.
Hope all is well for you.
P.x

This may well be my favorite post of all blogs of all time. I am completely fascinated by your bravery in harvesting wild mushrooms. As a true fan of them, I am now emboldened to go out and buy a book about them and go hunting for them myself. The bluets are absolutely beautiful - even if they were not edible. Your stew sounds delicious. The photos are great. Clearly, I have really enjoyed this post ... thanks so much.

Ohhhohohohohhh... I'm drooling freely. There must be some hobbit lines in my family somewhere because I'm obsessed with mushrooms.

About a decade ago I picked up a field guide to edible North American mushrooms (which I've not yet had occasion to use). The Olympic Peninsula's wet, fungus-filled rainforests are calling. *yooooo hoooooo*

Hi PG,
I too admire mushrooms and have had a book for ages, but I've never been brave enough to eat any I find. I've got a dandy photo of a giant yellow thing on a tree. I'll post it on my blog soon and you can tell me what it is. Hugs, Laura

I haven't seen that many mushrooms about this year, its been a very odd sort of year so far. I have seen a few common puffballs so far.