Although there was a frost overnight from Friday to Saturday (28-29 Sept.), I went out to see if any more mushrooms were to be found. What a surprise! The mushroom known variously as Leccinum aurantiacum, Red-capped scaber stalk, or Orange-capped bolete, which had evaded me for most of the summer, now appeared in numbers.



We took another walk through the forest on Sunday, to see if I had missed any or if others had grown overnight. What a thrill it was to find even more of those virile little wonders than the day before. At first we found only one or two, but after invoking the fertility gods we came across more and more, until they appeared in hordes.