1st P. stuntzii and P. fimetaria of 2009 (Blue Ringers)

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Went to a Denny's this morning with a grass lawn garden around two-thirds of the restaurant. As I have been photographing the Sakura Con the last two days, I had left my cameras at home because I never expected to see some shrooms this morning.

Mostly all P. stuntzii but a few seem to be very macroscopically close to both P. fimetaria and P. sierrae, both also known as blue ringers.

Laid these on a white desk top and photographed them at my friends house after breakfast. We noticed them at the same time leaving the restaurant this morning.

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See below, it says 3 is all I can post at once

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I have often found blue ringers and other shrooms when I have looked all day and quit and then found some and then just by accident.

Some examples are posed below.

Restaurants were once a great source of blue ringers in well sodded fertilized weekly lawns by good lawn care service.

That happened years ago getting a burger in Wendy's at South Center Shopping Mall in Tukwilla.  Eating a burger and looked out the window and the lawn was like a rug.

That was 1979.

Again in 1991, me and Jochen Gartz pulled into the drive through line at a MacDonalds at the Black Lake Exit off of I-5 Highway towards Tumwater to pick shrooms at a riding stable and then visit with Paul Stamets in Shelton.  The MacDonalds lawn had mostly blue ringers and we also picked some baeos there.  The picture of me at my species site titled the Lunatic is in the grass was taken by Gartz on that Macdonald's lawn in October of 1991.

Then after finding no cyans in Seattle, we headed to Astoria and met with some friends of mine and found massive azurescens patches in both Hammond and Astoria, Oregon.  Stayed in a motel where Arnold Schwarzenegger stay, i the very room, where they filmed Kindergarten Cop.

I went outside my room to order a pizza from the public telephone and opened the phonebook and accidentally came to a page of motels, and there was the ad for the motel I was staying in and it read, Home of the Kindergarten cop.

Now the shrooms we saw in Astoria, my friend did not want us picking his patches he showed us.  A very selfish act.  HE did give us mycelia for azurescens which Gartz mailed to Germany later on.  He took us to a field of lib caps, but Gartz got too cold and had to leave so I crawled until my fingers could not pick anymore. I had a five mile walk back to the motel and froze my nummies off. no one would pick me up.  I whop hitchiked across America 5 times in the sixties back and forth and down to Panama and across Canada.  Hitchhike for libs in Eugene daily for three years and got rides instantly.

My friend then took us to a closed naval Hospital with hundreds of pounds of Amanitas.  The caretakers told us to leave, but I took some of my best photos with mith my nikon em and macro lens.

Then we drove to Florence to visit Gary Menzer, author of hallucinogenic and Poisonous mushroom handbook.

He was a real estate agent and was off to Eugene, Oregon fopr their annual shroom mycological  society show.

Met up with him and then I wanted to treat Jochen to a Red Robin Burger, a real American 1/2 pound ten dollar burger.

WE went tot he Valley River Shopping Center across the Willamette River from Skinners Butte park in Eugen and the Rose Garden.

I saw some Galerinas in the flower bed box of the red Robin and it was night time so I said to Jochen, lets check this out in the morning.

WE drove in at 8 am into the parking lot of the Bon Marche, and parked and got out of the car.

In the mulch, we found throughout the parking lot and along the mulch of the Willamette at the lot, close to what we determined was 80 pounds of blue ringers.

Later in Salem on the way for our lecture at breitenbush, he mailed fresh and dried specimens of everything we found in three weeks of hunting.

I have found them at many restaurants in suburbs and in the city years ago.  Once with five people in a panel truck, we broke down on highway 405 between Renton and Bellevue, Washington. Sat for an hour. No one stopped to help, so we decided to hike the freeway to the off ramp to call for help.  I wanted to pick shrooms, not be stuick on a freeway with people and a vn that did not go anywhere.

 There was a Thunderbird Inn Motel and my friends went inside to call for help so I walked around the garden lawn of the parking lot and picked close to two pounds and then came and told them there were still some left.

Another time my wife and our two kids were on a bus from Portland to Seattle. We stopped in Olympia at the Greyhound station. There was a big park across the street with a gazebo, so I thought I should take a look with my six-year-old and we went walking.  No shrooms but Panaeolina and then I noticed the Federal building (VA)  across the street from the park and go to look and there were blue ringers surrounding the complete building so I start picking the shrooms.  Eventually I look up and see my bus pulling out of the station and there is my wife looking angrily at me through the window giving me the finger.

Had to wait two hours for the next bus.

Jut a few tales of the shroom.  have a lot of those lucky finds when I was not out to get shrooms.


From my bed in a geothermal heated cabin at Breittenbush.  They were also under my bed on paper and in Gartz' room his were drying like mine were.

Sorry I am not in the mood to dig up the photos of the patches at Bon Marche.

Have a nice rest of the weekend,

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Excellent find of mushrooms.  I have also had excellent
psilocybe finds in Oregon. :mrgreen: