Felt like sharing these small beauties I found last fall. I love this picture

Holy moly just thought I needed to share this intense experience. I recently took 20 dried liberty caps and turned on the new Andre 3000 album looped it (went through the album 3 times) Was insanity.

First hour I felt like I was flying and kept trying to throw it up. Fractals started appearing on everything. I started laughing my ass off hysterically, then suddenly switching to crying but not like a negative cry. It was a feeling I’ve never felt before. I can’t describe what it was, almost being as happy as I was sad, as weird as I felt normal. I then turned into what felt like being a 5 year old child, like I hadn’t experienced anything but also had experienced everything at the same time.

I can then only describe this feeling of exploding and then evaporating like a firework but in a nice way. My whole body turned into sparkles and was flying out into the universe.

It felt like my soul was travelling through space, and I was taken to a place that was almost like a lava lamp, the shapes of this alien planet were the lava lamp like orbs floating around me. It was bright pink and I was flying around it. I was being guided by someone or something - like I didn’t see any aliens but these inter dimensional beings like me that were trying to show me this is where a humans soul begins. The music was guiding the visuals. This lasted 2-3 hours. Each time the album restarted I had a new experience with every song.

Until I went back into that 5 year old state crying and laughing hysterically. Fizzing out again and feeling like embers or sparks. It was like I was made of glitter.

I felt like I travelled the cosmos and came back to earth. I then thought about my work and how unhappy I was in it and how I wanted to do something that uses my talents more. I thought how clever Andre 3000 was with that album new blue sun and it’s definitely the perfect trip sitter.

My mate decided to much this 40 minutes a go just started to kick in 🤣

Found in a field in Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA. I got excited about the spore print and hoped they were semilanceata, but is the umbo not pronounced enough?

Maybe it’s a Panaeolus instead?

It hasn’t been cool enough to kill off our mushrooms just yet! Hopefully I still have some time to get better at IDing. Thanks in advance.

Anyone had any luck coastal South West UK this week? Mushroom map is still red in lower elevations. Got a sick person to look after so don’t want to look if there’s no chance. Thank you in advance

This year was my first year picking, went out with friends to dartmoor and also managed to find some much closer to home. Between us we managed to collect 3oz of dried libs, we did one trip which was awesome. Sadly I lost someone very close to me half way through November, I won't be in the right mindset to eat them again for a long time. Will they still be as potent this time next year ? They're cracker dry, stored in jars with silica gel packs. If I manage to collect the same amount next year and years that follow I may never run out of libs.

Im in the Netherlands, so autumn weather in december and basically all winter is usual. I know a spot where they grow and have seen people from Wales and England still findin them. Is this weather still fine or is it too cold?

Wanted to post this for a while now, but I forgot. I have been a lurker on this sub and have gone hunting for libs on a couple occasions without any luck.

Well last month me and my now-fiancé did a one-day hike up this beautiful mountain. We saw colorful fall foliage, picked a few cranberries and at one point, when I crouched to tie my shoelace, I saw the first little lib. I jumped and ran around like a happy child and told my partner that it’s the most magical day.

When we reached the peak of the mountain and admired the view, he popped out the ring, which was the biggest fattest surprise (I was expecting it to happen after the winter holidays). We found more caps on our way back, and the little harvest (6g dried) resulted in our most intense trip ever and the best engagement present we could ever receive from nature. It was, indeed, the most magical day.

Look at the nipple on this little dude in the photo! It looks like it was dancing when I picked it and it froze in this wavy groovy pose(:

So conditions for libs have been pretty good since the snow blast we got. I'm north west. Just curious to see if anyone has found any since ? I haven't even thought to look... I may try