Mushrooms!

Mushrooms are one of my favorite natural subjects! I don't know why (Fantasia perhaps?), but they are just magical... no matter how much I understand them scientifically, they are still an other-worldly mystery. The bikeride through Jasmunder National Forest afforded plenty of opportunities to photograph them.

On a previous bikeride, Matthias and I and a few other amateur "pilz-jäger" collected Pfifferlinger (a bright yellow-orange edible mushroom) for soup. One of my fondest memories was collecting them in Sweden when Nina and I came over in '96. Like a treasure hunt!

These first mushrooms were found in Groß Zicker, actually.