Saturday: 'shroomy texture

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]
[images crossposted to texture]

on Saturday mornings there's a farmers' market across the river where the mushroom vendor provides a feast for multiple senses. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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Farmers' Market
Falls Church, VA

Comments

[gracegiver]

Oh, the ch-haanterelles! They look like something undulating in the dark and deep sea off the coast of never-never land. Beautiful pictures here, George. Beautiful.

(It’s so rare to see a typo from you, I’m going to assume it’s not. )

re: so rare

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

typo? 
what typo? 

(serves me right for not checking post posting)

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I know there's an LJ food_porn community and it's probably where these images belong but, well, that's just not quite my thing. 

Re: so rare

[gracegiver]

And I'm equally astonished you don't have the botanical names for these fungi.
You're slippin'.

re: slippin'

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

there's an explanation, but it ain't pretty: gluttony trumps taxonomy. 

where mushrooms are concerned I am incapable of retaining reason for any appreciable amount of time.  hobbits are far more restrained about them than I could ever be ...