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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Helvella crispa #mushrooms
We walked through a forest with many Helvella crispa, the white Elfin Saddle, on the ground. Too bad these are not considered to be safe edibles because there were a lot of them, more than I’ve ever seen together.
Mushrooms in a Fairy Ring
I found a group of mushrooms this morning in a spruce forest that were growing in a large fairy ring. You can see part of the arc of the ring in the lower photo above. I thought perhaps it was a ring of Lepista irina,… Read More
Memphis in the Forest
Fall begins and the sky is falling
Here it is the first day of fall as we wait to see who loses the space junk lottery. Listening to the radio this morning, we were advised not to worry, the space junk was going to fall into the ocean somewhere off the coast… Read More
Anchovy Dream #salty
Somebody landed on this blog after entering “Anchovy Dream” into a search engine. Salty sure, but maybe it’s about being crammed together in a can with the lights out? I hardly think of anchovys prior to canning. I do think about trout from time to… Read More
A damp and dark day
It seems more like October than September to me. As I look out the window, the sky is a dirty yellow, telling me the rain is not done yet. On the good news front, maybe that will trigger a fruiting of tasty edible wild mushrooms.… Read More
Soup from dried wild mushrooms
Most of the regular readers of this blog know that over the past few years I’ve become a mushroom hunter. When mushrooms are fruiting well, I’ll often collect quite a number of them and then dry them in a dehydrator to eat later. From time… Read More
It’s been quiet around this blog….
I’ll take that to be a silent request for me to post more accordion music. Here’s a lovely little Mazurka I found over on YouTube, called Perles de Brume.
Rossi, connoisseur of art, cat
Rossi is lounging in front of his favourite painting. It’s one of our faves too, a very large canvas by the late John Howlin.
27th Street 