I am seeing lots of these beautiful Fly Amanitas these days. Wayne Smith found a nice grouping of them recently.

When they come up, they are bright red but they do lighten as shown by nine-year-old Damien Baker's photo.

I learned from mushroom expert, David Arora, that these mushrooms can be prepared to be edible. It involves parboiling twice, throwing out the water between boilings. I prefer just to watch them evolve in the forest!

Thanks to Wayne and Damien for allowing me to share their photos with you here.

It was cloudy today with a few sprinkles. Temps in the mid-50's. Happy full day of Winter!