Saturday, 65 degrees, wind ESE, calm. The channel is glassy, the sky mostly blue. The barometer predicts partly cloudy skies.
I haven’t been on the woods path all summer and took it this morning, and to my delight there were several colonies of mushrooms along it, even though we haven’t had recent rain. The white mushroom is the destroying angel, Amanita virosa, as deadly as it is pretty. It has a faint, sickly sweet smell, and a large bulb at the base of the stem and a ring on the stem beneath the cap. Except for the bulb, it can easily be taken for the common edible field mushroom or champignon. The yellow mushroom is Amanita flavorescens, also with bulb and ring. It is not listed as poisonous but the Amanitas are all best avoided.
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