Here's the clue from yesterday, if you missed it - or so you don't have to toggle back and forth to check for the mystery's subject(s).
The subject in question at the moment is close to the middle of the picture. Not quite perfectly centered (there had to be a little photographic balance, after all). And there is more than one, but the others will be frustratingly elusive from this angle.
Every year, our family would spend Mother's Day weekend wandering around out in the woods looking for treasure. It was a search to rival any Easter egg hunt and we children had as good a chance to make great discoveries as our parents, since our eyes were lower to the ground and provided an excellent vantage point.
This is the one you should be able to spot in the mystery picture. I tried to get another picture at the same angle, so you can look for shape and shadow. It's the one that put me on alert.
Once a little lower to the ground (children's eye level) in an effort to gather the first specimen, its friends were easier to locate.
My brother and I harvested nearly two gallons of black morels in our afternoon of hunting, but a lot of crawling along on hands and knees through brambles was required to accomplish the feat.
However, there's nothing quite like a pan of fresh morel mushrooms fried in butter for hors d'oeuvres as a reward for the effort. Yum!
I have made morel mushrooms the subject of one of my block prints, and it was fun to try to keep some of the mystery of the hunt in the final image. If anyone's interested, I can post a picture of it. :)
7 comments:
Your block print - yes, please! TAP
Ooh, yours are the lovely black morels, which I have never ever seen ! I've seen only two in my whole life, and they were yellow morels. I visited one for three years in a row, which I know that makes no sense, but it came up in the same spot for three years in a row, and every time, it had a bend in the middle. That's why it only counts as one.
The other one I stumbled across, and it was a cutie. I brought it home and dried it, and now it lives in a little box on my shelf. I guess that's kind of sad - I should probably 'release' it back into the wild.
Yes, we want to see your morel print !! Hugs to ya, from BetsyLee
Oh yeah... I saw it❣️
And I knew that's what BetsyLee would like.
I have never hunted/ eaten wild mushrooms.
Sheila
Power has been out since yesterday. I'll see what I can do when it comes back on. :)
You could also soak that little sweetie in a little water and sauté it with your scrambled eggs. :) The power went out here yesterday morning and I'll see about getting a print picture, if they get everything fixed today. (Fire took out some line and a transformer.)
Hugs right back!
Good eye, Sheila! Edible wild mushrooms are a double treat - fun to hunt and delicious to eat. :)
I do love the fungi, Sheila. I haven't been too obvious about it have I? ;^)
Hugs to ya from BetsyLee
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