Monday, September 29, 2008

Beautiful but very dangerous


Yesterday I went for a walk in the forest
with my mother.

And there it was - the mushroom that
we as children loved and feared.
Fluesopp, in Norwegian.

We loved it because it was red with white
dots and looked like a fairytale
mushroom.
This specific specimen was a little
orange too - not quite perfect for me.

We feared it because we knew it was
very poisonous.

I guess it was a lesson in ambivalence.



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