Monday, December 15, 2008

Trip to the ol farm

Well I wanted to go visit gramma, she is getting up there in years and has glacoma now, for being near 90, she is in pretty good health.

I miss the days of learning to fish trout and crawdads in the creek, I also learned to fly fish, in the pond in the side yard. We used to hold a fishing tournament on new years day, if it wasnt frozen over, also if it was we were ice skating or trying too.

The pond with the old Barons house surrounded with hay fields and old xmas trees.
the old homested tree farm

The farm house and barns with the creek in the forground
creek and the old farm

Great gramma Lentz has a road named after her in Oregon.
great gramma Lentz


Gramma Hoard was born in this old school house, now listed as a ghost town, wish the place was on the national historic register.
the old run down fern hill school house

Fern Hill School


Me finding the last of the wild mushrooms of the season, Amanita Muscaria, the most photographed mushroom in the world.
me amanita finds

Tons of them
mass ring of amanita muscarias

Amanita muscaria in a fairy ring
large fairy ring of amanita muscaria


Another shot of the fairy ring, December 08
150 + amanita muscaria fairy ring


A shot of young button amanita fly muscaria
amanita muscaria buttons


This was truly an amazing shot and find, was so alice and wonderland to see so many amanitas in one place, this fairy ring contained over 150 mushrooms in the circle. that was up to 15 feet wide. In all my mushroom adventures id never seen anything quite like this, iv found fairy rings before but not like this one.
amanita fairy ring

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the walk through the Amanita woods; reminds me of the Abel Tasman National Forest in NW of South Island of New Zealand. Rivers of red flowing down the hill around the pines!