Twenty-one euros just to peek at a castle for five minutes sounds steep so skipping the tour was definitely the right call. Finding porcini mushrooms on the hike afterward makes up for it though. Definitely.

I agree ;-)

Thank you very much ! ;-)

thx :-)

Thx ;-)

None of these mushrooms tend to grow on dry soil.

In truly good years, the variety is even greater. ;-)

Ohh, those are amazing find, but do you eat them raw? That porcini? Right on the spot where you find them? No, even though people say you can eat porcini mushrooms raw, I would never do that. There are

Thank you very much. Well, it makes sense that you wouldn’t find many mushrooms in dry, rocky areas. On the other hand, there’s plenty of sunshine there—something I so often miss here. Want to swap? ;-)

Thx mate. ;-) Yes, that's a good decision. If you don't know much about mushrooms, you really shouldn't pick or eat them. It can truly—and without exaggeration—quickly prove fatal. I've survived so far

The Spessart is a truly vast forested area. I’ll be posting something from there again soon. These finds are from the neighboring forest, the Schenkenwald. But they’re practically one and the same—it’s

The fly agaric is very common here. ;-)

Also jeder fängt ja mal an. Ich hatte das Glück, daß mein Vater mir die Grundlagen beigebracht hat. Du könnstest ja mal mit einem erfahrenen Pilzsammeler losziehen. So was kann man auch buchen. Z.B. bei

Tolle Artenvielfalt. Wie viele km musstest du denn dafür absolvieren?

I've never been to the U.S. or Poland. Although Poland isn't exactly out of reach. I also have some distant Polish ancestors. ;-)

thank you very much, dear tangmo ;-)

thx :)

Diese Spiegelbilder kann man dort wirklich bei etwas Sonne wirklich ziemlich zuverlässig bekommen. Gefällt mir auch immer wieder gut, weshalb ich da eigentlich immer Station mache, wenn ich vorbeikomme

I'm also making the most of the last warm days of the year at our two quarry lakes—though they're really just two somewhat larger ponds... ;-)

Schöne Funde. Gekonnt dargeboten. Toller Beitrag. Bei uns ist es immer noch sehr ruhig. Immerhin habe ich paar Tintlinge am Wegesrand stehen sehen.