The
Great Morel Hunt — Part 3
We tried several times in the hollow to find the Great Morel Forest. The first time we found few mushrooms. It had rained hardly at all for almost a month and the woods were pretty dry. Another time, after a light rain, we did find mushrooms further along, in the cove in the hollow. This area had been cleared at one time, the house that was once in the cove is known only by a few piles of stone and bits and pieces of iron and broken pottery.
Molly did find morels in patches here and there along the road in moist areas where there is generally standing water year round. These “ponds” have a myriad of animal tracks in the mud.
This photo shows the open woods in the hollow on each side of the road, which goes from the right bottom of the photo into the left center.
Our garden and house are up on the ridge, in the top center of the photo.
Molly has changed her morel hunting costume and has had better luck, her bag, while not full, has a nice mess of mushrooms.
This is one of the morels in the hollow. You can see the distinctive cap.
We haven’t yet identified these delicate “fairy flowers” nestled in spots in the woods.
A swallow tail butterfly taking a rest on the forest floor.
And a johnny jump up emerging from beneath one of the leaves from last year.
We look forward to hunting morels next year and seeing the woods emerge from winter. Maybe we will see the Morel Forest.
Go
back to the introduction
of the Great Morel Hunt
The Seasons
We’ve collected some photographs to show the four seasons in our woods.
Socks’
Frog Pond
Some photos taken during the late winter.
The
Great Morel Hunt
tells about Molly's and George's hunt for the Great
Morel Forest, a semi-mythical place briefly seen in Spring 2000.
We attempt to find it again.