Monday, December 8, 2008

Mushrooms

Today Sib & I rode our bikes up to Luther Burbank's Experiment Farm. Sib & Ross had discovered an incredible outcropping of amanita muscaria mushrooms - the big, orange/red ones with white spores on top. It was so beautiful - for whatever reason, they loved growing under this one particular tree - a Chestnut. We walked all over the property looking for more, and found several other varieties, but no more of the amanita muscarias. I can see how people can get into mushroom huntin'. It's kind of addicting - like looking for pretty pebbles on the beach. I had to be very careful not to step on any of them.

Amanita Muscaria






I've never seen so many mushrooms.







Sibi




Breaking Ground, literally.

5 comments:

Amelia Lorenz said...

I wanna go there!

Nancy said...

Yeah, Amelia, you'll have a blast sketching the mushroom kingdom!

Windfurfer said...

The Mushrooms are Beautiful...

Amelia Lorenz said...

aaaww the whole family's here!

Donita Curioso said...

Gorgeous photos.