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I do love mushroom-gathering, and due to weather conditions I didn't get to do it much this year at the lakeside. I jumped at an invitation to do so in the forests near Warsaw, and while our haul wasn't too impressive - we got there a little too late in the day - I got a lot of photos of the inedible mushrooms people left behind :)





This would be Boris, my friend's Siberian Husky. He's a cuddly sweetie.



My favourite kind of poisonous mushroom, simply on the grounds of its prettiness.



This one isn't poisonous, just doesn't taste very nice.



There's a way to make those edible, but it's a lot of work. Best to leave them to look nice in the wild :)



Up close, some mushrooms look strange indeed.



...and some are even stranger.



This is a baby version of the most poisonous mushroom in Poland - 1 is enough to kill half a dozen people IIRC. But it's still cute :)



This one is very poisonous too. No idea why it's hiding under moss like that.

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Date: 2006-09-02 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] assimbya.livejournal.com
Mushrooms! I don't like how they taste, but I love how they look. Wonderful pictures, thanks for posting. :)

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Date: 2006-09-02 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] concordantnexus.livejournal.com
My mum used to pick mushrooms here in Canada (on the premise that most of the safe ones are the same) and make raw mushroom soup with them.

One time I had a bowl full of the soup and went over to a neighbour's place - being a hyperactive teenager I was bouncing off the walls figuratively speaking. The neighbour jokingly told my mum that she must have put some 'psychedelic mushrooms' in the soup.

Unfortunately mum got worried and decided not to pick mushrooms anymore - that and as she got older she got more and more scared of going in the woods by herself and getting lost. :(

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Date: 2006-09-02 09:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinkdormouse.livejournal.com
Those are all great.

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Date: 2006-09-03 07:05 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alice_montrose
The mushrooms are really pretty and all, but... but... HUSKY! *attaches to him and pets him and doesn't let go*

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Date: 2006-09-03 07:48 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alice_montrose
I just adore huskies. The only reason I don't own one is that he would be miserable in an apartment. They need lots of space they can run around in. And a hell lot of grooming. Yeah, i am so familiar with them... maybe because I'm usually glued to their stand when they have the local dog show. *sweatdrops* But damn, they're so pretty!

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Date: 2006-09-03 08:00 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alice_montrose
No, not lap dogs. Though there's this husky breeding centre in the Carpathians, since they started sleigh races here a couple years ago. Still, I wouldn't want to torment a poor husky to my life. Hells, I can't even own a cat... though I swore I'd get one if I ever manage to get my own apartment.

(It's shedding time for dogs, at least in Romania, so that explains it. My aunt's dogs are leaving hair everywhere as well.)

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Date: 2006-09-03 09:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] -leareth.livejournal.com
Poisonous mushrooms should be forbidden from looking that adorable. On the other hand, I'm now wishing I had the Photoshop skills to put some faeries in the pictures :P

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Date: 2006-09-03 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arabwel.livejournal.com
awww,pretty dog :D and nice mushrooms... dman, now I am getting an urge to go mushrooming. except that I can't tell one mushroom from another... the only ones I can tell as poisonous are the shiny red and white ones :P

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Date: 2006-09-03 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arabwel.livejournal.com
IU was thinking bringing them home for my mom to identify :D

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Date: 2006-09-03 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arabwel.livejournal.com
Not this far up, we donöt :( and hee, I actually recognize those! :D

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