Buoyed by my success foraging the other day, I ventured off to some other forests this morning. There were quite a few boletes around, mostly Boletus ornatipes, the ornate-stalked boletes. There were also pockets of some variety of suillus, which I don’t care for and… Read More
We had some rain showers on Canada Day after what radio reports suggest was the driest June in a quarter century. From a forager’s perspective this is bad news. Most years, I find chanterelles up in the enchanted mushroom forest at the beginning of July.… Read More
For a few years I’ve maintained structures in our backyard we call Imagination Stations. They are like shelters but too small to be comfortable for a person. I’m constantly adding to these things and they have both changed quite a bit over the seasons. Last… Read More
We have enjoyed lovely weather around these parts for some time and while that is pleasant enough, it’s time for a couple days of rain. Normally at this time, I’d be thinking about which forests to visit in search of the first chanterelles of the… Read More
It was in-between-times in the forest this morning. Morels are about done. Ramps are about done. Oysters haven’t started in earnest. Still I can’t complain. There were a few oysters, and they were nice and fresh, and a few ramps, enough to assure a… Read More
I took the partners for their early morning walk this morning over by the filtration plant. We were walking along the crest of the hill where the kids toboggan in winter, when I heard a car horn. I looked down where the filtration plant folks… Read More
Thursday’s ice storm was not a big deal here at 27th Street. However, north of Toronto was a different story. Both my brother (Mulmur) and my sister and her husband (Hockley) found themselves without power. My brother sent along these photos showing some of the tree… Read More
This beauty was hanging out among the flowers in the front yard this afternoon. I believe this is Red Admiral – Vanessa atalanta
Here in Long Branch we see a lot of spiders. It was one of the first things I noticed when we moved here several years ago. There were far and away more spiders than around our old place in the Caledonia and St. Clair area… Read More
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