Photos: mushrooms!

[winter]

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.

Comments

[assimbya.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms! I don't like how they taste, but I love how they look. Wonderful pictures, thanks for posting. :)

[winter]

I only like a select few (mostly the kinds you add to meat), but the prettiness is astounding :) It's hard to believe those are natural.

[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. :(

[winter]

Pity - in my family mushroom-gathering is a bonding activity. We go to the forest in large groups and bitch when there's nothing to be found ;) This year, mid-August was so wet that there's a bumper-crop of mushrooms, so I foresee a lot of mushroom dishes throughout September.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Those are all great.

[winter]

Thanks :) Kind of makes up for the fact I only found 7 edible ones.

[alice_montrose]

The mushrooms are really pretty and all, but... but... HUSKY! *attaches to him and pets him and doesn't let go*

[winter]

Lovely, isn't he? :) Boris has some behavioural issues when he's with his owners at times, mostly due to the fact he doesn't get too much exercise (huskies = not appartment kind of dogs), but he's a complete sweetie when he knows I won't give in to his every whim. All my clothes are covered in dog fur on account of Boris cuddling me in the car.

[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!

[winter]

I know, I'm the same - they're CUTE :D But really, not lapdogs in the slightest - Boris gets four+ hours of exercise per day and that's borderline for keeping a husky in good condition IIRC, not to mention that between two people with full-time jobs it doesn't leave them time for much else to do. Plus he's miserable during heatwaves.

(Grooming might be a good idea. Maybe then he wouldn't bloody shed all over me :P)

[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.)

[-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

[winter]

Eating the red one with the white spots is said to make you see your own faeries ;)

[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

[winter]

Best to go mushrooming with only a camera, then ;) Far too easy to confuse them. Even after two decades there are very few kinds I feel confident enough to pick.

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

IU was thinking bringing them home for my mom to identify :D

[winter]

Possibly a good idea. Or just pick these if you have them in your forests - they're unmistakeable and great in soup or with scrambled eggs :)

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Not this far up, we donöt :( and hee, I actually recognize those! :D