Sunday mushroom walk

With all my responsibilities ... my day job, maintaining the boat, maintenance of the house, housework, three children, plus other things like my crypto trading, steem, the pirate party and other projects, there is not often much time left for anything else. Previous Sunday, I feel that I got nothing useful done that Sunday, but at least I managed to spend some time with my family. I went for a biking trip with my middle son, I helped my eldest son a bit on programming a game, and I went for a mushroom trip together with my youngest daughter and wife.

My wife was insisting on driving, so our trip started from a parking place.

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She also knew where to find mushrooms - now, in my opinion this probably isn't the best place to search for mushrooms, there is too much people here, this road is never more than some few hundred metres away from residental areas - and my wife also insisted that the mushrooms were growing on the "civilized" (left/west) side of this road. Well, at least Norwegians aren't the most active mushroom pickers, so maybe there is something to be found that nobody else have bothered picking.

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Pay attention to the one bright tree a bit to the left in the middle at the photo below. The thing is, we're relatively far up north and it's late autumn, hence the sun is quite low on the sky, and while walking down in the forest we're in the shade of the sun. However, this area is a bit open, and there was a small opening in the trees behind, hence the sun was shining and lighting up exactly that tree. While the photo may look dull and boring, it was actually a quite awesome sight ...

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No, no, that's not a pine, that's a birch!

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We didn't pick much, but at least we got something. The green stuff my daughter picked just because she found it decorative. In addition, my wife had a plastic bucket that she filled with Funnel Chanterelle (traktkantarell på norsk).

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I've never before been picking this kind of chantarelle (Craterellus tubaeformis), though my wife has picked quite some, and she specifically wanted to go here because she knew there is quite some of this mushroom growing here. We picked quite some tiny, tiny mushrooms ... and then we met another lady being out in the same business as ours, when we met, she said she took only the biggest ones, leaving the smaller ones to grow a bit bigger. I felt a bit embarrassed when hearing that, nice she didn't see my wifes bucket ...

I forgot to take photos of this mushroom, but here is one found on the Internet:

*Photo by Ilmari Karonen, CC-SA, found at Wikimedia Commons

The below photos shows another kind of a chantarelle that I'm not familiar with ...

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A quick google search, and I concluded that it's false chantarelles (falsk kantarell på norsk), Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca, and not recommended to be eaten - so we threw it away.

(the observant reader may see that I'm lagging behind with a week on my posts ... busy days!)

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