Toadstools and more toadstools

As our camera battery died yesterday when we tried to get some good toadstool pictures, Niks and Naks insisted we make a new trip today. And Deimos insisted he must come along, too.



Deimos: These look like the red fly agarics except they are not red but brown!



Niks: They look poisonous enough to me!

Naks: Let's pick them!



Deimos: Here is a small and almost round toadstool...



Niks: Here is another...



Naks: And here is a flat one...



Niks: Here are really cute tiny round ones...



Naks: And here is a very poisonous looking white one...



Naks: A brown slimy one....

Niks: And a white spherical one...

Naks: It looks like a ball!

Niks: I'll kick it right across the Atlantic!

Naks: You can't kick it even to Sweden. Just pick it, it'll taste good.



Deimos: More slimy brown ones...

Niks: We'll eat these...

Naks: The slime adds extra flavor...



Deimos: Here are some cute small ones again...



Naks: And a greenish waxy looking one...



Deimos: These are huge!

Niks: They must be the kind called "herkkutatti" (Porcini, Boletus edulis).

Naks: These are sold to Italy! Italians love these!

Niks: We'll sell these to Mafiosos...

Deimos: I don't want to have anything to do with Mafiosos...

Niks: Are you still afraid of them?

Naks: If you send these to them they'll love you and never chase you again...

Niks: ... except maybe to get more of these mushrooms...

Outsider: I think they are wrong about the species. Those mushrooms are some Boletus species, but not Porcini. I hope the Mafiosos will not be after Niks and Naks and Deimos because they sell bad mushrooms to them...



Deimos: Can these be sold to the Mafiosos, too?

Niks: Maybe, but they are not any Boletus species...

Naks: We better eat them ourselves.



Deimos: This one is growing on a rock!

Niks: It has rained so much that the moss on the rock has grown thick

Naks: Thick enough to grow mushrooms!



Niks: These are cute.

Naks: They have a cute name, too: "Tuhkelo"

Niks: The white grains rub off and tickle my nose!

Naks: Who told you to rub your nose on them!

Niks: They smell so good!



Deimos: Here are more white, poisonous looking toadstools..



Niks: Here are even bigger ones!



Niks: Finally a bumper crop of red fly agarics!



Deimos: Can you see them all?


Finally at home Niks and Naks got the badly needed bubble bath. I tried to suggest that Deimos could use a bath, too, but he said that little demons never take baths. He agreed to help to scrub Niks and Naks, though.

Naks: Aaaaaaaah... that feels good....

Niks: Scratch me some, too...