fungi growing on dead tree

[darkoshi]

Why is it that when I post photos to DW, they always display as larger than actual size? I have to add a parameter like width="80%" to make them look the same size as they do in my image editor, when I'm displaying them actual size there.

Before I had thought it was browser specific, but now it seems to be happening in all browsers. And I can't tell if other people see the images large or actual sized.

It must be due to me having Windows configured to display things at 125%.

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[marahmarie]

This post reminds me, I have to walk to the end of one of the roads here and take a pic of the fungus frog. It's a fungus. That looks like a frog. Saw it weeks ago already but hopefully it's still there.

[darkoshi]

Oh, do take a photo if it's still there. Now I want to see the fungus frog :)

[marahmarie]

It totally (er, toadally) slipped my mind today. Hopefully I'll think of it tomorrow. :)

It no longer looks like a frog, though. Let's guess what it *does* resemble!

[marahmarie]

https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/file/459476.jpg

Took the pic today.

Background: first saw it a month ago; it sits on the base of a tree across the street from the apartment I was cleaning that week. I should've taken pics then - it looked exactly like a frog from near the apartment's front door - but I guess I figured no one'd believe it or care (though come to think of it, I should browse my gallery now to make sure I never did - if I did, the pics are gone now).

A month later it's got black spots and has melted a little. But I think it still looks like....something with two eyes.

Here's a clearer pic:

https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/file/463020.jpg

Distance is key; even when it was fresher, up close it would no longer resemble a frog. But the black spots are new to it from the last time I was there (so fungus has got a mold now. I'm truly fascinated by nature's layers upon layers of creation).

Re: It no longer looks like a frog, though. Let's guess what it *does* resemble!

[darkoshi]

Yes, it does look like something with a big mouth... a little bit creepy. Thanks for the pix :)

Re: It no longer looks like a frog, though. Let's guess what it *does* resemble!

[marahmarie]

Well, I thought it was kind of cute. If you check this one (it's taken long-distance and sort of blurred so you might have to study it for a bit) you might can see what I mean:

https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/file/464759.jpg

Kind of like a cute little sad-face frog looking to the left with two little arms under its face. That's what I'd seen a month ago but it was much clearer then.

Re: It no longer looks like a frog, though. Let's guess what it *does* resemble!

[darkoshi]

I'm not seeing anything in the last photo. But with your above description, I see the first photo as vaguely sad-froglike in another way now, which may (or may not) be the same as what you are seeing. It is sorta cute.