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Melissa | June 22, 2010
Look what Hannah found growing down by our creek.
Now, I know mushrooms grow a lot bigger than this, but this is the biggest mushroom we’ve ever had in our yard. It measured 11″ across the cap and about 3″ across the stalk! I guess they like all this hot steamy and wet weather we’ve been [...]
Melissa | July 16, 2009
This last month has been unusually busy for me. Which I admit while fun things have been happening, I do not like being busy in the slightest. But now, the calendar has cleared up and it’s catch up time. Another reason for the lack of blogging is just feeling a general “dullness” which could be [...]
Melissa | June 9, 2009
Recently the children and I went on a fungi hunt. The photos in this post are just some of what we found.
The word fungus doesn’t usually make us think of fun nature study. In fact if you’re like I was before learning about it, the word conjured up sorta unpleasant thoughts, to be honest. Now, [...]
Melissa | May 16, 2009
“Rain had come and gone, filling the pond and fattening the fruit, settling the
dust and soaking into the earth. It was time to go on a mushroom hunt.”
- The Mushroom Hunt by Simon Frazer
We’ve had a very rainy, wet spring here which has been like a beacon call for mushrooms to pop up all over [...]
Melissa | May 9, 2008
Update on Spore Prints! 5/10/08 – They are so cool! Those are thousands of tiny spore particles that the mushroom shed from their gills overnight! We did spray them with a clear polyurethane and that worked quite well too. You can rub right over them and they are preserved. We are adding them to our [...]
