It neither threatened my plants nor posed any danger. It was merely unusual.
Relief washed through me so fast it left embarrassment in its wake. Something that moments earlier had seemed ominous was nothing more than an eccentric visitor from the natural world. I let out a shaky laugh, amused by how ready I’d been to see it as a threat rather than a curiosity.
Finishing the watering, I kept glancing back at the fungus. It was unchanged; only my perception had shifted. What began as fear had become fascination,
