Thursday

autumn air ~


I don't know if the air changes that much where you live with the oncoming of autumn; but it sure does here!  I think that is one of the major reasons I love the fall season the best.  It just seems to trigger all your senses.




 ~ barberry ~

~ staghorn sumac ~

I love the smell of the air in the fall ~ the leaves, the grass, the peat moss swamp ...


I love the smell of wood.  I love the smell of the woods.

I followed the guys out yesterday as they took the tractor and jammer out to haul in some firewood logs.

While they were busy cutting up wood ... I walked around to see how many different kinds of mushrooms I could see... and smell.  I usually smell them before I see them.  I think I would of made a good hound dog 'cuz I sure do have a good sniffer on me.

~ a mushroom with pores ... I think it's a Hydnum Imbricatum ... which in Latin means covered with tiles.

~ a gilled mushroom ... possibly from the Russula family?

~ puff ball family ...

~ shelf mushrooms ...

Pholiota Adiposa??? or Agaricus Augustus ~ the Prince???

~ more shelves ...

~ Honey ...

... more puffs

??? maybe Club Foots ???

~ (above) the very poisonous Amanita Muscaria ... but oh so pretty.

~ ???? ~
Now if I only knew how many of those ~ and which kinds were the safe ones to eat!

That's why we planted the mushrooms we did ... so there would be no more wondering if's :)


  I still can't get over the size of these Wine Caps! 

~ white birch ... yellow birch ~

pretty pumpkins by the steps ... 


... and the smell of freshly blanched turnips ready for the freezer.  Now there's a smell you don't get every day!  

Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel

11 comments:

  1. When we first built the log cabin by the creek, my younger Andy and I took a mushroom walk and did spore counts on nearly 50 different kinds. There are so many look-alikes, so the spore samples were key. to this day, the only wild ones we eat are the snow-white Giant Puffballs. You have the right idea, growing your own., then ya know for sure.
    Life is tasty

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  2. It is safe for me to order at a restaurant, the mushrooms. I admire your knowledge for the flora, and still be be safe grow your own. A neophyte like myself would eat a toad stool.

    Hope YOU are feeling well, and smiling at life. I wish I had a great smeller, so much I miss. Mine is going with my hair. ha!

    Love to Slim, Sam and the rest. AND YOU TOO of course...(smile)

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  3. LOVE all the mushrooms. I was wondering if you knew which ones are safe to eat??? Guess you have to be careful and just eat the ones you planted.

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  4. I love all the scents of Fall, too...as much as the sights, really. I can't believe all the varieties of mushrooms you have up there! Amazing. Do you know I haven't seen a puff ball in YEARS!!!! I had kind of forgotten about them. I sure loved to come across them when I was a kid! xo Diana

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  5. Wow, that's a lot of mushrooms! Love the pics. When I was growing up, I always got a kick out of punching a hole in the puffballs with a stick. The only mushrooms I feel safe eating from the wild are the morel mushrooms. We call them 'molly moochers.' They are pretty unmistakable.

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  6. So many mushrooms, must be the by product of a wet summer and fall. Great photos. I'm going home from my knee surgery (Appleton) It's quite a treck 120 miles, I'm sure I'll see lots of changing leaves. It would be better if the sun came out.

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  7. Hi Mel, great pics, the mushrooms remind me of picking them in the woods in Germany when I was a wee little girl with my great grandmother:)

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  8. I would love to follow a mushroom expert around for a couple of seasons! You have a lot of different kinds popping up at the momens!

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  9. Beautiful blog site you have here! I signed on as a follower.

    I know about tractors and I know about firewood, I use both... But you got me curious, what is a "jammer"?

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  10. Mom, can you eat the honey mushrooms???
    Wish I could be there to walk through the woods with you, I love fall walks. The porch looks nice with the fall decor, made me miss home!

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  11. RE: Sara ~~
    What do you think you've been eating all these years? Those are the same kind Dad and I have been picking and canning for years.

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