Fly Agaric

This was photographed near the beginning of the Park Butte trail on the south side of Mount Baker where I hiked on one of the few good days we had in October. It is the Fly Agaric, Amanita muscaria, a mushroom that has hallucinogenic properties. I've decided that I'll keep posting photos here until Ipernity disappears, though there seems little reason to do so after all the effort put into Ipernity. At this point I have little desire to start over elsewhere though I've opened an account at 23hq. I'll almost certainly not go back to Flickr, since I hate their interface and despise Yahoo. Thought I had found a happy home here, but I guess it is not to be.