The Norwegian forests are suddenly full of mushrooms to pick. More than usual, and more or less all over the country as I can see from a mushroom Facebook-group I follow. It is an Eldorado to be in the forest now, and I could spend all they there searching for wild food, or taking pictures.
The one above is a Russula, probably Copper Brittlegill (Russula decolorans). But they are so many different, so can’t be sure.
Definitely False Saffron Milkcaps (Lactarius deterrimus), and a couple of Slippery Jack (Suillus luteus). Very good both of them.
I also like these ones a lot, but as others in this family they need to be fried for a long time, at least 15 minutes. Red-cap boletus, Leccinum aurantiacum.
My dog was sick and had to have an operation. It was a dangerous condition but thanks to clever veterinaries he seems fine again. But have to wait sometimes, for my preoccupation with mushrooms. And the best of them all is also around, the cep. All these pictures are from the last couple of days. Don’t use my photos, or any photos on the internet, to decide which mushrooms to pick. Use your own knowledge, or find somebody who knows. There are more photos in my mushroom galleries.
Bente Haarstad Photography 
Your poor pup – glad the pup is on the mend – good news! Mushroom hunting looks like fun to me – plus I love to eat mushrooms. Happy Week 🙂
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Thanks for caring for the pup, he seems ok now. And enjoy your mushroom eating.
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Beautiful pics Bente, this year the mushrooms are also very urly, but not mushrooms for eating only poison ones, strenght for your lovely dog!
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Quite early here too, Ann, probably because we had a warm summer. Iam glad you don’t eat the poisenous ones. Thanks.
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Your welcome Bente, greetings from the Netherlands!
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Bente, I hope your dog is feeling better, being sick is not fun for any animal. Your forest looks so lush right now, moist and lush. You are a much braver soul than I. I love to look at mushrooms but I totally suck at identifying them. I buy them straight up at the market, or let our morrel hunting dog teams find some for me!
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Good for you, I guess there are lovely ones in your markets. I was raised this way, as a mushroom maniac every autumn. And thanks for you concern, Nancy, as a dog woman I guess you know all about it, Gastric dilatation volvulus. Frightening experience.
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That is, I am glad you have a good veterinarian to help you work through this, cheers and good thoughts coming your way!
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Love the lush, delicious colours Bente and would love to taste the different flavours. Happy foraging and cooking and hope your poor dog is much better soon!
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That is what I am doing, trying to taste the different ones. Thanks, Patti, all well it seems.
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Enjoy the research!
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So beautiful. I wish we had mushrooms here.
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But you have other kind of nature to enjoy. Maybe some to eat too? Thanks, Emilie.
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Poor doggie 🙂 Glad he came through.
As for the mushrooms, great photos as always. Although I am a chef for 47 years and absolutely love mushrooms, (fresh chantrelles are my favorites), if I would source my own I’d probably be dead the same evening 😦
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Hahaha, yes that actually can happen, Hans. So do what you definitely do best: the (mushroom) cooking. Thanks from both of us.
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Lovely photos and colours. Glad your dog is OK now.
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Now he is back to normal, so we are very happy. Thanks, Draco.
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It’s always a worry when our pets are sick. So glad he’s doing better. And your mushrooms!!!! Oh, how it makes me want to go picking! We mainly go for chanterelles here on Vancouver Island, but there are boletus as well. Not as nice as yours, but there are some. Maybe in two or three weeks we can go picking here. We need some rain first! It has been too hot and dry for too long.
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Everybody here pich chanterelles, so all the others are there for me. I like them all though, the edible ones. I hope you got the rain to start the mushrooms popping up. Thanks, Anneli.
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Yes, got the rain in the last couple of days. Am looking forward to going out there to pick.
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Wow,, some pretty awesome mushrooms! I love mushrooms…….. for eating that is… sorry to hear about your pup~ Hope better now!
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Yes, now he is fine, at least. Needed some recovery. Thanks, Sally.
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Lovely photos of these wonderful mushrooms. You are lucky to be knowledgable on which ones are safe to eat. There are so many around that look similar that it takes a very skilled and learned person to tell which ones are poisonous.
Glad to hear your dog is on the mend.
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You are right about the many similar ones, but I started picking as a kid, and only pick the ones I am certain about. Thanks Vicki.
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What big beautiful mushrooms. I hope you enjoy eating some of them.
I hope your pup is feeling better. The giant cone is no fun.
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Cone is certainly no fun, but important. So now he is fine. Thanks a lot Jackie.
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Great images that forest looks like a great place to wander about in. Good to hear your dog is fine-those hats really annoy pets, we have had a few ops on pets over the years and they hate wearing those hats.
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That forest is actually one of my favorite places on earth and have been since childhood. Especially in the mushroom season. Hat is off now and all is well. Thanks Karen.
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Glad to hear your pooch is ok. I was looking at the photos and I’m like. . “What’s wrong with the doggy? ” Then I read he was ok. Whew!
Great photos!
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Doggy is back to normal and all is well. Thanks a lot Plant Girl.
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So glad to hear! I tend to worry about my furry friends a bit more than my hairless, pink ones. .. 😉
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I know what you mean, hehe..
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Wonderful photos and you sure are lucky to have such a variety of edible mushroom near you. I would love to have patch of tasty boletus near my house. Have a great week and i hope you dog recovers quickly.
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We are especially lucky this year, but always some variety. And I like that. The mushrooms have different taste. Have a great week too Mike, and thanks.
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Thanks Bente, I will have a great week.
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Wonderful pictures Bente and delicious mushrooms. In Holland they grow also very fast.
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Delicious indeed. Thanks Jaap.
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Your pooch doesn’t look too put out by the cone. My dogs have gone a bit nuts when having to wear one. I wish I knew enough about mushrooms to go picking. The only ones I recognize enough to eat are morrels. They are so yummy.
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I would guess you live in mushroom-land too, Gunta, if not on the beaches. Morrels I don’t know much about but I have heard they are good, and some maybe poisenous? My dog endured the cone pretty good, maybe since it wasn’t as large as I have had on my old dog, he was really frightened. So all well now. Thanks.
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Lovely photos and I am glad you are keeping up the tradition of foraging for wild mushrooms. Great that your dog is doing well now.
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I don’t know why but foraging in the wild is heaven. Maybe we are made for this? Thanks from both, all well now.
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I think we are made for it, but most of us have forgotten.
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What a harvest Bente ! And I like the basket —- was that made by Sami people ?
Your photos captured the atmosphere so well = they brought me back the memories of 40 years ago. 🙂
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What a harvest, every day actually if I get a chance to go looking. The basket is not made by the Sami, they have other kinds of crafts, like using thin roots for “weaving”. My basket is very old, from my childhood, so I don’t know its origin. Now you made me think. Why don’t you find yourself some forest, but it might not be like the Japanese ones…
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Fantastics mushrooms ! Hope you dog will feel beter and beter ! Have a nice day. 🙂
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The dog is now fine, so it is all very fine. Thanks a lot Croquedessin.
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Great variety in the basket – you obviously know what to pick
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Yes I know some, and that usually is enoght to fill the basket, if I wish. Thanks Diana.
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Beautiful and appealing images. My husband loves to go mushroom hunting!
And I hope your pup is truly on the mend. Our vet also was quite a pup-saver a few years ago, and my 10 1/2 year old labrador continues to enjoy life because of his skills.
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I guess your husband has brought back some mushrooms by now, and that you all enjoyed them. Glad to hear about your labrador and that he got the help needed. Great vets are important. Thanks Cindi.
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Lovely photographs of the mushrooms. Some friends have found ceps here already but I have not looked yet. I love cep and other mushrooms but I cannot eat Suillus luteus. Your dog looks very resigned and bored with his collar on, I hope he will have it off soon and be running around as usual. Amelia
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I guess the french loves ceps, but maybe not as much as the Italians. I like the variety. Don’t eat much of the Suillus, but once in a whaile if they are perfect. Dog is running around as normal now, at last. Thanks Amelia.
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A great series of photographs! Suddenly the woods are full of mushrooms, bye bye summer, the autumn is here.
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You really made the perfect description. Without the mushrooms I would maybe be sad by now, but I am not obviously. Thanks Mijnnikon.
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Hello Bente, you seem to know a lot about mushrooms, this is such a precious knowledge to have, I envy that 🙂 I hope your dog will recover fully as soon as possible, so sorry to hear he was so sick.
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It is very possible to get that knowledge, if you learn one by one, and have someone to show you, or to control. Dog is fine now, so thanks a lot.
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Don’t see many mushrooms around here, so thanks for the visual treat. Hope the dog recovers fully.
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Glad you enjoyed the treat, Emilio, and dog sends his best regards. All is fine now.
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Love this series of mushroom photos! Great shots. Hope you dog is doing well.
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Yes, fine now. Thanks Amy.
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Engaging mushroom images, I especially like the one on top!
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Engaging, that is kind of you. Thanks John.
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Flott innlegg fra soppskogen. Fikk meg til å vurdere et soppkurs.
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Fint å lære om sopp ja, gjør turene ekstra givende om høsten. Godt er det også. Du kan jo prøve privatleksjoner: finn en person som kan minst en sopp. Det begynner gjerne med kantareller.
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I’m so glad yoiu have the knowledge and confidence to pick and eat mushrooms. I only recognise three sorts with certainty, so I’m not having the great eating experience that you are. Hope your dog continues to get better.
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Three different ones, that is not so bad. many Norwegians knows only one kind; the chantarelle. Thanks a lot, Margaret, and the dog is fine now.
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Smukke stemningsfulde billeder, Bente ❤ God bedring for hunden din 🙂
Mange gode hilsner, Hanna
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Tusen takk for det, Hanna, fra oss begge. Hunden er i fin form nå, takk og pris.
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Great photo’s of the mushroom Benthe.Here we have to wait a little longer to find them
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Happy cooking of your beautiful mushroom and a kiss to your four-legged friend
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iyi geceler size 🙂
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What great mushrooms. The first one is huge. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a big mushroom. Looks like an enchanted forest.
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Those ‘shrooms look so good! I have to stick to the very few I can positively identify though, but we don’t have the abundance here that you have.
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Magnifique forêt et magnifique saison des champignons. Ici, c’est pareil 🙂
Bon rétablissement à ton chien. Val
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Hope your pup is fine
I like to pick up mushrooms too but I don’t appreciate the lactarious, exepted in pix !
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Your forest is so pretty – and the mushrooms seem magical. I wish your dog a speedy recovery – a day out in nature is probably good medicine for him. Beautiful photographs, Bente!
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Your photographs are beautiful, Bente. Now I’m craving some mushrooms fried in butter!
I’m glad your dog is doing OK, he looks a bit like a furry mushroom in that picture. : )
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A superb gallery of images, Bente
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Lovely photos, Bente. I hope your pup is better soon.
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Love these photos, Bente! We see people everywhere, but images like these are very rare indeed. Thank you!
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Beautifully captured Bente! I don’t think we have such large varieties of mushrooms here. Hope your dog is fully recovered by now.
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Thank you for sharing this fascinating world of wild mushrooms, I really liked it a lot. And gorgeous photos, as always.
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AMAZING variety and forest, your photos captured it so well ! Are all the ones in the basket edible?
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Moy bonito todo… y ese hermoso can, que se recupere y pronto. Saludos, bente.
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Du har fanget en hel underskog av sopp. Dette er virkerlig høst for meg. Flotte bilder, spesielt det første som har et drivende perspektiv. Vil ellers ønske god bedring til hunden din. Det ser jo ut til at han er på bedringens vei.
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they are immense !!!!!
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beautifull!!
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We’ve been gathering and enjoying lots of mushrooms here in Virginia as well: chanterelles, chicken of the woods, cauliflower mushrooms and the shiitakes we’re growing. It’s a great time of year for mushroom foraging. Happy hunting!
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So glad your pup’s OK, Bente. Poor baby. I picked some mushrooms back in the day. The hallucinogenic kind. Oh the stupidity of youth.
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Happy mushrooms to you, Bente.
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Happy mushroom season. In Spain it is still summer. Un abrazo.
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Hi, Bente. I’m fascinated by mushrooms, but I’m afraid to eat them wild – afraid I’ll get a poisonous one. I know some of the families here pick and eat mushrooms. Your photographs are wonderful.
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Yes, don’t pick any to eat if you are not sure, Dave. But I guess you have some good teachers around, use them. Thanks.
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Beautiful photos! I love mushrooms. Your dog, though he was ill, poor boy, looked adorable!
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he is fine now. Thanks, Freelance.
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Apparently I missed this post of yours. Sorry to read that your dog has been ill and had to have an operation. I trust all is well again?
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Yes, he is well again. Thank you very much for your concern, and enjoy dog life!
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Bente, hope you enjoyed eating the edible ones as much as I enjoyed thinking about eating them ;~)
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I always enjoy eating edible ones. Now you made me think about the ones that are in my freezer.
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…and I’m glad to hear the dog is well again!
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