A walk in the woods

I decided to escape from things today and went for a walk in the woods up in the hills not far from here. Autumn has set in with avengeance since my last visit and as the sun heated up and the mist slowly rose and dispersed a panorama of rolling hills opened up clad in a spectrum of autumnal browns and golds, and the glorious scent of cool damp autumn air. There were mushrooms everywhere and I got some passable photos which I put up in my photoblog earlier. The only problem is I haven't a clue which are edible and which are not so they all remeained firmly rooted in the ground. In fact I only know one edible species with enough certainty to risk eating it (Lactarius deliciosus) and someone always seems to beat me to them.

A chance encounter with a rather fragile little mushroom clinging to a piece of rotten wood on the forest floor also coincided nicely with PhotoFriday's choice of subject this week: Delicate. So after copping out for 2 weeks running I hurriedly posted my link today lest I forget.