This is our cat Gourd (yes! it is spelled that way) before his costume change..see above. Rachel's first cat is an orange tabby, hence his name is Squash. She had to have Gourd to go with Squash. Funny now that I think of it our first family pet cat was named Turk except everybody called him Turkey.
We have a thanksgiving feast of pet names 1. Turkey 2. Squash
The terms "mushroom" and "toadstool" go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.
The term "toadstool" was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.[3]
The term "mushroom" and its variations may have been derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse). There may have been a direct connection to toads (in reference to poisonous properties) for toadstools. However, there is no clear-cut delineation between edible and poisonous fungi, so that a "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. The term "toadstool" is nowadays used in storytelling when referring to poisonous or suspect mushrooms. The classic example of a toadstool is Amanita muscaria.
here is a little sunshine on this wet & windy day. Amy Butler fabrics using Denyse Schmidt's hop, skip & jump pattern. It is always a great idea to take a photo while you are arranging the quilt blocks. Somehow the camera lens 'sees' what you don't.