Is it raining at the moment? How do you manage garden jobs in the rain? For me it brought some unique goodies this time.

Ever seen and ate these jumbo sized mushrooms fresh from nature ? For the very first time in my entire life, the nature God gifted these king sized mushrooms at the abandoned place, where my pots were kept earlier. If you remember, I moved my pots to that abandoned place, when the society asked me to move them to convert the garden into a mini playground. After more than a year, I moved them back to their home, as nothing happened.

I left these three curry leaves pot there as they are pretty big and, in an early morning after rain stopped, when I went there to look after these pots, I discovered these gifts from nature.

Looks amazing, isn't it ? So many big mushrooms and no one noticed them because they would have never thought about they growing at this place, even in their wildest imagination.

The place was covered with polythene to prevent grass from growing and they were all left over polythene from our painting job of the home few years back. I always keep things, that I feel may be used for some purpose later. Since there were some holes in these polythene, may be the rain water poured into the ground and created some hot and cold impact on the soil, causing these mushrooms to grow.

Once I saw a few of them, I carefully unfolded all the polythene and it was a lot of them that would serve couple of families.

So I called our security guys and gifted half to them, as these guys can't even afford to buy mushrooms from market. Instead of giving to other rich residents, I consider it a better cause to give to needy people and they were very pleased to thank me a lot with gratitude, to get this rare opportunity.

Again one need an experienced eye to recognize these mushrooms, otherwise the blind rule with mushrooms is that, don't eat if you are not two hundred percent sure - they can be fatal. The security guy is a very old man, who confirmed my findings, I had seen these kind of mushrooms only once before, at my native, back in August, about which I posted an image in this post. And it rained since then, disrupting all my plan, but we always have to live with the mercy of the nature - nothing can change that - no technology, no AI. We living 40 miles off the coast, heavy rain and cyclones have been part of our life every year.

And as this was the very fist time, the kids got opportunity to taste these nature's gift, the lady did take extra care, to prepare a mouth watering grilled dish. This is the second time, they were delighted with these nature's gift, if you remember, I was gifted to discover sand mushrooms once earlier. For sure, our kids will never carry this knowledge and can't give the same culinary pleasure to their kids - these things never sell in market. After eating them, the kids told, this is the most tasty food they have ever eaten so far, so you can imagine.

This post is in response to the Hive Garden QOTW 34: Rain

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