Day: October 19, 2012

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Emma waited for a while for Leilani to wake up and play with her, but did not wake her up.

Surprise… we had mushroom soup and baked parasols for lunch. They were really good.

We went for a walk with Lara. In the forest, and just in case we took a basket and a knife along.

Andy found something! I think it was a Birkenpilz, but it tasted pretty bad for one.

This is a blewit. There are a lot of them in California so I know the English name. Here it’s a Violetter Roettelritterling.

Rotfuss Roehrling

Druesentragendes Springkraut (Impatiens in English)

The basket got full again…

Leilani was just missing a hammock

They found a hunter’s high seat and climbed up, while I kept picking Taeublinge (Russulas) nearby



Back at home, playing with Emma

Trude’s beautiful fireplace:

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We left Paris very early, but Andy thinks CDG Terminal 1 is a funky old building and needs to take pictures…

tried to drink a hurried coffee in Munich, but Andy thought we had lots of time and Sonja didn’t hear the flight announcement in the restrooms…

flew across Austria…

and met Emma the cat…

and my mom and Lara. Gerd is hiding.

I wanted to go mushroom picking right away (surprise, surprise), so we drove a few minutes to the forest. The weather was perfect for mushrooms and they were all over, even the edible ones.
Parasol:

Zunder (only for smoking bees, not for eating)

Andy photographed a lot that I don’t know.

I think these are Rettichhelmlinge, not edible, or at least to small to be worth it

They could be Stockschwaemmchen. But it could also be a deadly poisonous Galerina marginata. Just in case we did not eat it :-)

Halfway through the picking

Halimasch. Recently the largest living organism has been identified as an Oregonian relative of the Halimasch. (The mycelium, not the fruiting mushroom)

More parasol. And someone, who is looking forward to eating it deep-fried is trying to catch it.

Austrian Feuer Salamander (fire salamander), only the yellow spots are poisonous (“causes strong muscle convulsions and hypertension combined with hyperventilation in all vertebrates”):

But Leilani still found them adorable (and she was good at finding, dare I say spotting, them):

Flymushroom, Amanita muscaria (do not lick this one either)

Little white mushrooms


Sonja named this photo “Loot:”

We had a lot to clean: