Phylacia #3 HA ed Ms
A basket full of King boletes (Boletus edulis sensu lato)
A big Amanita hemibapha, the Himalayan Caesar, a choice edible with two eggs that are twice as big as a regular egg
A blue Primula
A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
A colorful red beetle with yellow spots that hangs out on Auricularia delicata. It reminds me of a beetle, I saw being called a fungus beetle.
A cool lichen, may be a Lethariella, but that is just a guess...
A creek running through the meadow in Yading
A curious, hungry finch that ran between our feet
A cyphelloid pored fungus seen DoChu La
I wished I knew what this fungus that grew our of a bamboo cane, is!
A farm house in Nyachuka. These houses started to get painted in the late 1990 when Matsutake money enabled farmers to do so. Before that house were unpainted.
A Grisette (Amanita vaginata gr.) is eyeing you. Seen in the oak forest in Pauna, Boyacá
A group of Armillaria mushrooms above Yading
A improvised building in the matsutake camp.
Matsutake is known by Tibetans as Beshing Shamo, the oak mushroom, since it grows with oaks.
A lot of big Himalayan Caesars!
A lovely group of Asters (Erigeron sp.)
A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
However in the front carved former pool table tops!
A meadow surrounded by pine forests above Nyade / Yading.
It was the perfect picnic spot until a rain started.
A mobile matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake) dealer who meets his clients along the hiighway.
A nearly completed Mandala made of sand
that will be destroyed at completion and dispersed into a river. What is it with these Buddhists worshiping impermanence?