Wacky Lubbock Weather Yields Unexpected Results

Just what the hell is going on in my front yard?  It's a jungle out there for sure, but now it's becoming an alien landscape as well.

Okay, so I moved into a house that was owned by a landscape guy. I'm  not very good at keeping it up and certainly not to that level. Even then, I've had some weird stuff growing up there as of late. First off, there are the mushrooms pictured at right. Weird ones right? I kicked the one on the left and two hobbits and a troll fell out. I think I heard fairies laughing from under the other one. I feel like I need to put on a robe and a pointy hat to even comprehend what I'm dealing with here.

Then there's this thing:

HOLY HELL WHAT IS THAT THING ?! 

It's like my ground was so moist that my lawn grew a penis (or a snorkel or something).  I don't even know what to say about it. I can tell you that I looked at it once and later in the day it was already dead.I don't know what the Peter, Paul and Mary this thing is, but I'm sure glad I didn't fall on it. I think I'd end up with a chestburster alien or something. I'm going to go with "an alien spore/penis/snorkel thing"  that was caught doing surveillance on my house so it self-destructed.

Okay, no sooner that I got this ready to publish, I stumbled across my friend Cindi's page.  Check this out:

Cindi tells me this is called a "fairy circle". All I know is, I wouldn't dig in that spot without expecting to find something dead or some kind of portal there.