Mushroom Cloud" was the title my husband suggested for this photo. To me, this mushroom on the remains of an elm tree represents what happens in the fall: the dying away of the season's tender growth.
Of course, while autumn is the end of something, it also harkens the return of elements to the earth to be reborn in the spring, or in case of dead things, to be to be turned into elements that are used by the living. I remember when this elm was alive, but like most elms around here, it died young.
© Yvonne Cunnington, 2009