{"id":515,"date":"2007-07-09T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-07-09\/515"},"modified":"2007-07-09T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:46:47","slug":"big-burgeoning-mushrooms-boys-and-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-07-09\/515","title":{"rendered":"Big Burgeoning Mushrooms, Boys, and Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033539' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033539.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033539_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Mushrooms the Size of Dinner Plates -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033539\"\ntitle=\"Huge mushrooms growing on a hillside in Otsu, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>90 sec, f\/7.1, ISO 320,\n &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033539.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033539.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Mushrooms the Size of Dinner Plates<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>After <a href=\"\/blog\/2007-07-08\/514\">the baptism<\/a>\nyesterday, Anthony and <span class='nobr'>I got<\/span> together with some other friends, and ended up\ngoing to Hieidaira (<span class='nobr'>a small<\/span> community nestled in the mountains, just over\nthe border from Kyoto, in Otsu) to see some huge mushrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033556' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033556.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033556_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Greg and his Mommy Check Out the Big Mushrooms -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033556\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Mother and child inspect huge mushrooms on a hillside in Otsu, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 32mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>50 sec, f\/8, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033556.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033556.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Greg and his Mommy Check Out the Big Mushrooms<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetkyoto.com\/blog\/\">Nils Ferry's<\/a> wife Yoshiko\nand three-year-old son Greg were with us. I've met Nils many times (such as\nwhen he took me to some temples in his area to see the <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-11-22\/286\">autumn colors<\/a> last fall),\nbut had never had the pleasure of meeting his wife.<\/p>\n\n<p>The mushrooms were big and fuzzy....<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033521' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033521.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033521_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nid=\"i033521\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>80 sec, f\/6.3, ISO 100,\n &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033521.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033521.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Big and Fuzzy<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033551' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033551.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033551_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nid=\"i033551\"\nphotostream=\"summer\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>350 sec, f\/4, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033551.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033551.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style='position:relative; width:702px' class='ic'><a name='033517' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033517.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033517_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nid=\"i033517\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 32mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 100,\n &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033517.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033517.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Life Stages of the Big Mushroom<\/span>\n<div id='x515a' style='visibility:hidden;position:absolute; border:solid 3px red; left:6px;   top:280px; width:176px; height:182px'><\/div>\n<div id='x515b' style='visibility:hidden;position:absolute; border:solid 3px red; left:139px; top:239px; width:184px; height:223px'><\/div>\n<div id='x515c' style='visibility:hidden;position:absolute; border:solid 3px red; left:330px; top:161px; width:204px; height:296px'><\/div>\n<div id='x515d' style='visibility:hidden;position:absolute; border:solid 3px red; left:450px; top: 88px; width:216px; height:306px'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Apparently, they\n<span onmouseover=\"mobin(this, 'x515a')\" class='mob'\n      onmouseout =\"mobout(this, 'x515a')\">start out as balls<\/span>,\nthen start to\n<span onmouseover=\"mobin(this, 'x515b')\" class='mob'\n      onmouseout =\"mobout(this, 'x515b')\">expand sideways<\/span>,\nfinally\n<span onmouseover=\"mobin(this, 'x515c')\" class='mob'\n      onmouseout =\"mobout(this, 'x515c')\">breaking lose<\/span> at the base of the ball,\nto then\n<span onmouseover=\"mobin(this, 'x515d')\" class='mob'\n      onmouseout =\"mobout(this, 'x515d')\">arch upwards<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The final stage in the life of <span class='nobr'>a mushroom<\/span> this size is normally to be\nstomped, squished, poked, kicked, and generally thrashed about by <span class='nobr'>a three<\/span>\nor four year old boy. These particular mushrooms were miraculously spared\nthat fate.... at least while we where there.<\/p>\n\n<p>One mushroom ball a bit bigger than <span class='nobr'>a golf<\/span> ball had somehow broken off\nand rolled down the hill to just sit there, so we let the kids poke at\nthat.<\/p>\n\n<div style='margin-bottom:50px' class='ic'><a name='033549' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033549.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033549_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nid=\"i033549\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 17mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, f\/4, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033549.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033549.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Anthony Poking At Something<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a name='bug'>It was <span class='nobr'>a great<\/span> trip<\/a> for little boys, as there were also bugs. What <span class='nobr'>I\nthought<\/span> was <span class='nobr'>a honeybee<\/span> had an unnatural and fairly tenacious attraction to\nmy black camera bag.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033578' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033578_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Syrphid Fly on my Camera Bag -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033578\"\ntitle=\"Syrphid (hoverfly) that mimics the look of a honeybee, in Otsu, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; 100% crop &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>40 sec, f\/5, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033578.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033578.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Syrphid Fly on my Camera Bag<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I'd never seen a bee quite like it (especially those eyes... freaky!),\nbut since it seemed intent on mating\/eating my camera bag, <span class='nobr'>I felt safe<\/span>\nenough to lean in and take <span class='nobr'>a picture.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>The shot above<\/span> is <span class='nobr'>a full<\/span>-resolution\ncrop from the much larger image, taken as close as the lens would allow.<\/p>\n\n<p>Upon arriving home, <span class='nobr'>I did a<\/span> Yahoo! Search for &#8220;<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=fly+that+looks+like+a+bee&amp;fr=yfp-t-501&amp;toggle=1&amp;cop=mss&amp;ei=UTF-8\">fly\nthat looks like <span class='nobr'>a bee<\/span><\/a>,&#8221; and sure enough, <span class='nobr'>a bazillion<\/span> links about the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoverfly\">hoverfly<\/a>, also known as\nsyrphid flies. They tend to mimic the look of bees and wasps (insects that\nbirds don't care to eat), but are harmless and are considered beneficial to\ngardens. Bees have much smaller eyes, an extra pair of wings, and big\nantenna sticking out the front. Oh, and <span class='nobr'>a stinger.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Then there was a kind of grasshopper that looked more like dried grass than <span class='nobr'>a bug<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n<div style='position:relative; width:702px' class='ic'><a name='033582' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033582.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033582_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nid=\"i033582\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>60 sec, f\/5, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033582.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033582.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Can You Find the Grasshopper?<\/span>\n<div id='x515e' style='visibility:hidden;position:absolute; border:solid 3px red; left:178px; top:198px; width:84px; height:62px'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It was\n<span onmouseover=\"mobin(this, 'x515e')\" class='mob'\n      onmouseout=\"mobout(this, 'x515e')\">virtually invisible<\/span>\nuntil it moved, which it did with surprising speed and distance.<\/p>\n\n<p style='margin-top:50px'>The boys were interested, but preferred smashing an old rotting tree stump.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033587' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033587.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033587_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Boys Being Boys -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033587\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Two young boys poking at a rotting tree stump with sticks\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>640 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 320,\n &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033587.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033587.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Boys Being Boys<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033600' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033600.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033600_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nid=\"i033600\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>100 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 100 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033600.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033600.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Uh, Boys, We're Leaving........<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p style='margin-top:50px'>Here's <span class='nobr'>a nice<\/span> picture of Greg's Mommy<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033543' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033543.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033543_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Yoshiko Ferry -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033543\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Yoshiko Ferry, of Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>40 sec, f\/7.1, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033543.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033543.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Yoshiko Ferry<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For completeness, here's one of the only pictures <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetkyoto.com\/blog\/\">Nils Ferry<\/a>,\nout of focus in the background, from when he took me to <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-11-23\/288\">the Konpukuji Temple<\/a> last\nNovember. <span class='nobr'>It seems<\/span> that we were both focusing on the pretty colors, figuratively and literally....<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='022763' href=\"\/i\/JEF_022763.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_022763_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"A Fuzzy Nils Ferry -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2006 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i022763\"\ntitle=\"Nils Ferry at the Konpukuji Temple, in Kyoto Japan, Fall 2006\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 17mm &mdash; 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I've met Nils many times (such as when he took me to some temples in his area to see the autumn colors last fall), but had never had the pleasure of meeting his wife.<\/p> <p>The mushrooms were big and fuzzy....<\/p> <p>Apparently, they start out as balls, then start to expand [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}