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We were relieved to arrive in Epping with the cross still attached to the roof of Susanna's car. Epping is in Essex, but it's on the London Underground, so we're happy to count it as still being ‘London’ for the purposes of saying we walked from London to Walsingham.
This is the church hall where pilgrims gather on the Friday evening then spend the night.
Rose-Star English paper pieced quilt top basted & Blogged here:http://orangeexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2012/09/further-adventures-in-quilting-by-bay.html
Taken in Epping Forest near London. Camera CANON 450D with Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 Lens.
MUSHROOM : Amanita Muscaria
location: North America, Europe, England.
edibility: Deadly
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Ring on stem, Volva on stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground
Amanita muscaria (L. ex Fr.) Hooker, Fly Agaric, Amanite tue-mouches, Fausse Oronge Roter Fliegenpilz, Légyölö galoca. Cap 8–20cm across, globose or hemispherical at first then flattening, bright scarlet covered with distinctive white pyramidal warts which may be washed off by rain leaving the cap almost smooth and the colour fades. Stem 80–180×10–20mm, white, often covered in shaggy volval remnants as is the bulbous base, the white membranous ring attached to the stem apex sometimes becoming flushed yellow from the pigment washed off the cap. Flesh white, tinged red or yellow below the cap cuticle, Taste pleasant, smell faint. Gills free, white. Spore print white. Spores broadly ovate, nonamyloid, 9.5–10.5×7–8µ. Habitat usually with birch trees, Season late summer to late autumn. Common. Deadly poisonous. It contains many different toxins see below. Distribution, America and Europe.
Info courtesy : Rogers Mushrooms.