Coming in for a landing:
Pull up!
That was close!
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 9 Dec 2009, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Update: We’re told this is the famous fly agaric, Amanita muscaria.
Short Link:
Orange Mushroom
UFO landing strip:
A little off topic, but I happened to be born in a town that has a real UFO landing pad.
Here’s the URL that typepad ate:
http://www.abbeville.com/landing/photo-lakecity.asp
Now that’s some folk art, for some planet of folk!
Is that the source for the reddit alien?
That would be immensely cool, but I don’t have any reason to suspect that they’re related.