After three weeks of thunderstorms day and night, and humidity that rendered every towel and piece of clothing saturated with moisture, the sun finally came out. As I walked to the car, I saw a huge brown mushroom, and then inhaled a waft of that intense, earthy, primeval scent of forest . I kept walking, into the dappled sunlight of the woodlands nearby. The brook was rushing noisily downstream, and, on either side, a wonderland of mushrooms had sprouted.
As I am not familiar with which mushrooms are edible ( except for puffballs), I simply enjoyed the rainbow of colors and shapes I saw spread out before me. Mother Nature never ceases to amaze me.
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4 comments:
Hi Kat ~ Those mushrooms are amazing - the colors aren't like any mushroom I've ever seen! Maybe that's your reward for having to put up with so much rain. I suppose any mushroom that gorgeous has to be poisonous???
Hi Barb - no doubt you are right! There was one mushroom I couldn't get a good picture of that was deathly blue - that one HAD to be lethal, I'm sure! But it was fun to potter around in the woods, seeing all these cool 'shrooms and generally enjoying a sunny, dry day (finally)!
I am not sure which mushroom is which either so I just don't try it.
I love mushrooms and make fresh mushroom soup for my family often, but I leave the harvesting to the experts.
I had a friend years ago that would gather them from all over, but I said no when he was going to teach me - I didn't want that much pressure on my head.
Organically Yours,
Diana
Diana - I feel the same way - I took a mushroom hunting class, but even after that didn't feel confident I'd remember which was which. To be honest, I like the white supermarket mushrooms for most things, nicely sauteed and toasty brown...
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