… with a billion mushrooms!  We scoured the Oakland hills for Evan’s sometimes-annual Birthday Mushroom Hike and found some pretty sweet specimens.

Birthday Boy with an Rosy Russula

This Fly Amanita’s a little too large to put in the carrier

Our first Death Cap… safe to handle, deadly to eat!

A little baby with big ambitions

From the runways of Paris to the composting stumps of the Hills: this petite charmer was a perfect fashion match.

Some kinda coprinus?

Left: Daisy just realized she’s surrounded by mushrooms!

Right: Max just realized she’s surrounded by mushrooms!

Slime X 2

Spot the mushroom

Spot the mushroom hunters

Spot ted dog with mushroom

Mushroom-Hunting Posse in effect

My E.T. moment

Fungus sniffs fungus

Spore prints from the exclusive Winter Collection ‘10

Death cap peeling back its veil

A good day’s work

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