The Avenue of Honour
Luke and I visited Macedon - the township and the mountain - yesterday in search of autumn colour. Macedon's Avenue of Honour, a stretch of road lined by pin oaks, is renowned for its autumn display, but we were probably a week or so too late to see it in its full glory. A lot of leaves were already on the ground. But once I spotted the fungii, I didn't care about the trees and their leaves. There were some growing beside the road...
...but in a paddock beside the road there was a veritable wonderland of fungii growing, including quite a few amanita mushrooms - the red ones with the white spots - which are like something from a fairy tale.
We also visited one of the open gardens in the area, Tieve Tara, which is very pretty.
Autumn carpet
Tiny snail
Pond
Geese
Fountain
Leaf carpet
There were mushrooms there, too
Then we drove up to the top of Mt Macedon to see the memorial cross. There were amanita mushrooms growing under the pine trees there, but you've probably seen enough fungii in this post already.
The cross (with flowers from Anzac Day)
View from the lookout
It was a fun day out, but the fungii were the highlight for me.
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