{"id":391,"date":"2008-08-10T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/391"},"modified":"2008-08-10T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T17:54:33","slug":"fungus-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/391","title":{"rendered":"Fungus walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a camera with me this morning when I ran the dogs. We’ve had three weeks of very wet weather (a flash flood killed a girl a few days ago and a tornado killed a lady up the road in Northwood a week and a half ago) – if it’s not pouring all day, there’s almost always thunderstorms in the afternoon. I figured the wet ought to encourage fungi to fruit – turned out to be a good guess. I’ve pulled Toads and Toadstools<\/a> off my bookshelf for re-reading; seems weather appropriate. Some pictures, then the slide show.<\/p>\n

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The Oyster River in August is normally low enough to walk across using stepping stones without getting your feet wet – this is obviously not a normal year.<\/p>\n

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I think\u00a0 one of the local bruins ate too many green apples and gave himself an upset stomach.<\/p>\n

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The Sun God. It’s not hard to see why toadstools are so important to old religions and folkways. You’ve got solar discs and phalluses emerging spontaneously from Mom Earth – let the myth making\u00a0 proceed!<\/p>\n

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The big guy – Amanita. I still like Wasson’s\u00a0 soma theory, even if there are other equally good candidates – its a rippin’ idea.<\/p>\n

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