Beautiful shrooms, from Kestrel. Click for full size.
This is the quintessential mushroom, Amanita muscaria.
Who is that hiding in the kinnikinnick? Oh look! It’s Suillus sibericus! Not all mushrooms have gills. Suillus are what’s called a bolete, and instead of gills they have tubes neatly stacked together.
Suillus sibericus.
Pleurotus ostreatus. This entire log was covered. It was amazing to see such a large fruiting. I took a photo of only one small clump.
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MUSHROOMS! screams the mildly deranged penguin, running around the room (that is, across the floor, up a wall, across the ceiling, down the opposite wall, repeat…). She’ll soon charge off (hopefully through a doorway or other existing hole) to find her MUSHROOMS! hunting gear (including emergency flamethrower for any horses), presumably then to set out on the trail of migrating wild MUSHROOMS! (and, of course, cheeses).
Nothing like shrooms in the wild!
@blf: LOL! I expect I’ll see you soon then. Besides my Mycological Madness ™ I am a cheese maker. I currently have some gouda and manchego aging in the cheese cave. :-)
I saw some Lactarius indigo on my walk the other morning and I didn’t have my camera, alas. They’re as blue as the name implies. When I walked by there again today there wasn’t a sign of them, but there were lots of deer tracks. I suspect someone had a rare (albeit blue) treat for this neck of the woods.