I emerged from the (enchanted) urban forest.
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Exploring the hidden urban landscape
I’ve driven by this spot many times without ever venturing in. There is more forest than you would expect, including some very large trees. Maybe I’ll find mushrooms here sometime during the season.
Countdown to mushrooms?
The warmer weather has got me thinking about foraging for wild mushrooms. It’s only a matter of weeks until the morels make an appearance in Southern Ontario. I should say elusive morels because last year I was spectacularly unsuccessful in my quest for morels for… Read More
Countdown?
My brother the trout, Salvelinas Fontinalis, reports that the first morel of the year has been found near Knoxville. As we get into spring, they’ll be found further and further north and should start appearing near Anchovy Town some time in May. This is a… Read More
Less than 90 sleeps…
Not that I’m anxious for winter to be over or anything like that…. ….but in fewer than 90 sleeps, trout will be poking their noses out of the water to gobble up emerging Epherella subvaria mayflies and the elusive morel will be poking its head… Read More
Search term of the day…
what do hydnum umbilicatum eat Well geez, they’re mushrooms. Fungi often exist in relationships with plants or other fungi in order to get their nutrients, but I don’t think of them as eating exactly. This particular mushroom does have teeth though…but it doesn’t chew. The… Read More
Bad Reaction
Someone found my blog by searching “had a bad reaction from eating chanterelles”, and I thought this deserved a comment. Chanterelles are by all accounts one of the safest edible wild mushrooms. However, some people suffer allergic reactions to all wild mushrooms. My first question… Read More
End of Mushroom Season
There are still some mushrooms around Southern Ontario and still some people out picking them. For me, though, I think the season is about over. There are so many leaves on the ground, it’s about impossible to see anything fruiting, except on the odd lawn.… Read More
Danger in the woods
I’ve mentioned here that I’m really careful about going into the woods with my dogs in the fall because I’m worried about hunters. Here’s why. Thanks to Salvelinas for sending this my way. I’m not an anti-hunting advocate, although I don’t hunt and have no… Read More
An Afternoon Walk
Both our dogs caught kennel cough at the local dog park. They’ve been on anti-biotics and we haven’t been letting them run around much. Today, they were both obviously feeling better. I didn’t know if they were still contagious or not so instead of taking… Read More
27th Street 