We have quite few trees here at Anchovy World Headquarters, including a mature locust, several mature spruce, a mature silver maple (on the property line between us and the family next door), two other maples, a tamarack, a cedar, two large apples and a horse… Read More
This year I’ve spent way more time in forests than in rivers, but today looked like a perfect day for some fly fishing. Off I went to The River. I just call it that. Everybody who needs to knows which one I mean. Around this… Read More
I only started foraging for mushrooms last summer, with the help of my brother Salvelinas, a load of books and a night course at the university. Last year, Salvelinas kept telling me about all the various boletes we were going to find, but we never… Read More
Here are some more mushrooms we came across today. The Velvet-footed Pax seems to be fairly common in pine forests. It’s a poisonous mushoom. The pretty orange ones were growing found growing from a log. Perhaps they are Mycena leaiana?
We found several examples of this mushroom today, this one being the largest. Gills are unattached. There is no ring and no vulva. The stalk seems to have an extension going below the surface of the ground.
I’m no expert on slime molds, so don’t be asking me to identify this one. It’s very striking, isn’t it?
Yesterday I packed up the dogs and headed for the forests where I like to forage for mushrooms. On the radio, I heard “chance of showers”. The rain started in by the time I crossed Highway 9 and it just kept raining. It rained and… Read More
It’s been dry over the past week, so I didn’t expect to find many mushrooms. In terms of edibles, I found only half what I found last week. I did find quite a number of different species of mushrooms today though, and that always makes… Read More
Today I found an Old Man of the Woods mushroom, or Strobilomyces strobilaceus. These boletes are apparently edible, but hardly appetizing. They’re covered in hairy scaly bits on top. They stain reddish then black. The one I saw was remarkably camouflaged. I almost didn’t see… Read More
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