Posts Tagged ‘hikes’

• Rolling the dice on a mushroom forage

  Date: 2010.05.07 | Category: I'm just saying | Response: 2

  Tomorrow my husband is going on mushroom hunt with Braise Culinary School. He loves mushrooms. I hate mushrooms. However, we both agree that they are very interesting to photograph.

  

  Anyhow, he’s going to be up bright and early tomorrow to spend the entire day hiking through the Northern Kettle Moraine, tracking down all of the edible mushrooms he can find.

  

  He has this book about mushrooms,  North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi, and I flipped through it a little bit and this is what I’ve deduced: if he eats the wrong mushroom he’s screwed.

  

  For someone who is afraid to be on an airplane, I’d say that rolling the dice on a mushroom is probably the equivalent of jumping out of an airplane and not being sure if you’ve grabbed the backpack that has the parachute in it or a backpack that is filled with crayons, Highlights magazines, a Nintendo DS, and a juice box.

  I’m just saying.

• Harrington Beach State Park

  Date: 2009.05.24 | Category: Hiking in the Park | Response: 0

  Today we hiked in Harrintgon Beach State Park, located near Belguim, WI, right along Lake Michigan. Click on the thumbnail pictures for better viewing.

  

  the terrain was very different from Kettle Moraine

  

  there were little purple flowers

  
  

  

  there was a quarry

  

  Maisy sat on a park bench

  
  

  

  more little purple flowers

  

  a tree growing in an arc

  
  

  

  a tiny ladybug

  

  the quarry through the trees

  
  

  

  we met a butterfly

  

  we saw Lake Michigan through the trees

  
  

  

  and the tippy top of the trees

  

  Zoe got a rock in her shoe

  
  

  

  there was a lime kiln oven

  

  and a small white flower

  
  

  

  and a lot of green fuzzy foliage underneath the trees

  

  small yellow flower

  
  

  

  one lone frog

  

  make a wish

  
  

  

  as we were leaving the park we turned right and headed towards the lake

  

  choppy water

  
  

  

  and tall grass

  

  Harrington Beach State Park

  
  
  

   Where will we hike next Sunday?