One consequence of all the rain, (besides all the mud, flooding, a dirty Vinodog and boredom), is that some interesting fungi have popped up around Vinoland.
The poison pie mushroom (Hebeloma crustuliniforme) is, as the name suggests, moderately toxic to humans and usually appears in the autumn. But due to the fact that winters in California are so mild, this winter the poison pie mushrooms are enjoying an extended run in Vinoland.
There is always something to distract me, sigh.
3 comments:
VG: Interesting fungus, and well photographed.
Made me think a bit on the days when philosophy was my main interest:
“The toxic agents have not been identified.” This unknown poison fits in nicely with John Cage’s notion of chance, and his hobby of collecting and eating mushrooms systematically, eliminating ‘chance’ which he embraced ideologically, the modern/post-modern belief in ‘matter, motion, time and chance, in which there is no basis for rationality. . .’ Cage reflecting on this danger made a personal choice to exclude this from his notion that the universe is pure chance. It’s called Humble pie; the universe can do that to us.
NHW: In my humble opinion, sounds like mushroom-Russian roulette.
Did someone say pie?
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