Hi Everybody!!
Hope your summers are all going great!

We went camping and this was growing near our site. Looks like a cross between a mushroom and flower? About 8" tall. Tons of pine tree's all around and of course pine needles. Anyone know?

Allotropa virgata

Thank you Bill!!!

Sooooooooo verrrrrrrrrrry COOL!!!

Wonder if it is poisonius?


dodge////////

Reading up a bit more about these. Apparently they are an indicator of where matsutake mushrooms are growing. This plant is a parasite that gets its nutrients from the growing mushrooms. Matsutake mushrooms are excellent in cooking!

More on allotropa

triss

ok.........

Ill pass that one up.

dodge

I wanted to pick or even touch them, but I was doing all the cooking and if they were poisonius, I didnt want anything yucky on my hands. They are pretty cool looking though huh?

TJ

I am sure......It is hard to wash out campin..;o)
I sort of suspect plants in the woods are not to eat .

Like skunk cabbage........Poison mushrooms.

???

dodge

Yep, and the worst is to see some crumpeled up toilet paper behind a big tree. NEVER touch that!!

tj

Yukkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Glad I dont camp.. i do have woods around me here, only walk short times.. Ride mostly.

Did you go to the Grand Canyon camping?

That must be nice there??

dodge

Two things about being in the woods;

you won't die of hunger
you won't die of thirst

If you keep a good field guide(book) with you.

woodchuck..........

What would a woodchuck chuck??ha ha

You can die of Poisoning......
Bears can eat you.
Snakes can bite you .
Coyotes can attack. Deer too.
Skunks can add perfume...........

Had enough Chuck?

dodge ..............joking

hehe!!!!!

No, we didnt go to the grand canyon, (I wish!!), we went to a place called Union creek here in Oregon. I LOVE that place up there. It's so peaceful. And there's nothing better than a nice meal being cooked out in the woods

I get chopping and ANTHING that I can done before we leave so it's nice and easy to put the meals together. This time we went with 12 other people. All friends of my Son's. He got to come home from the army for 13 days. It was a blast. And I tell ya, feeding 12 hungry 21 year olds is a lot of food!! I would do it everyday of the year though if I could (and it was warm). We drink along with them and it's our chance to be goofy and young again.

tj,

What a wonderful story.........Tell that SON in the army......(Huge Thanks)....We love what he is doing for our country........God bless him and your family for giving him a nice time.

Nice to know when someone cares.

I Know Woodchuck does!!!!!!!!;o)
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck??????

Great time of the year for fun.

dodge

This woodchuck chucked 2,000 lbs of oak this morning before the first cup of coffee!! Then for breakfast we had snake soup, with bear steaks and eggs. For lunch it was coyote jerky, poysenberries, funky fungi, and cambia fluids to wash it down.

10 years of camping under the stars, cooking over a fire, and getting moths in the dinner.

If you have a good field guide, you'll avoid the problems and and you can eat the weeds&trees.

And yes, I do care.

woodchuck,

Ha ha ha..........
Then you are a dreamgardener......Live in the woods and dream gardening.

Where do you plug the computer in at..On any tree trunk???
Woodsy stories!!!!!!!!!

Glad you care.......

dodge

You know what I got for being a smartass?

The hingey part of my lower back is totally yanked, oy, it hurts, the oak load was real.

Then, after posting, my big toe folded under my foot, the joint popped LOUD, and there was this searing pain all the way to my ankle. What did I catch my toe on? the floor.

There's always a squirrel around to power my cordless computer.

I grew up in the country..
and ate my way outside in the summer time...
I knew what berries came first and the last
before fall..and where every patch of them where
up and down the road from me....
(insert licking her lips gremalin)

I'd starve to death in the winter though!!!

Weezie

I still do that....
ha ha

i can and freeze everything that looks good.
DOnt starve in winters.....
Maybe i should.. (pounds0

;o)

dodge

Ahh you can find the coolest things camping! Good find!

jakesangel,

I dont have to camp here.. I met mother bear and her 2 cubs right on my road , riding my bike..

Peddling alone..........I never rode a bike home so fast in my life.....Bet I could of won that championship ......

That was my last bike ride ........eekkkkkkkkkkkk.

Keep woodsy.. I switched to quad riding.;o)

Dodge

Oh my goodness! Now that would have been a wonderful site to see Dodge! I would have had to stop ad whip out the camera before I rode away!

jakesangel,

Camera's were the furtherist thing in my mind that day......All woods all around and noone to hear me if I hollered>>>>>>.

Bears eat blackberrys back there.

dodge ......