After a few days of grey clouds and rain, today the sun came out again and it was a glorious day!
I was eager to spend time outside, and luckily there's always a lot to do here on the farm, that we are house-sitting during the winter.
So I did a little bit of gardening, preparing the beds for the winter, and spent the afternoon out in the woods to gather some more mushrooms for winter storage :-)
I'm very new to picking mushrooms, I don't know many of the edible specimens, in fact, I only recognize one, maybe two, so far ^^
But for now this is enough, and I'm happy that I find just some, that I know, I can eat.
As I said, I'm a bloody beginner, so I only pick the ones with the spongy spores for now, because I've been told, that none of that family are poisonous ^^
According to my book, most of the ones in my basket are "Slippery Jacks", and I also found some "Penny Buns".
Unfortunatly about half of them were already being eaten by little worms, or turned out to be already too mature and soft and watery.
But I was still able to cut some of them into pieces and prepare them for drying.
It's getting colder here in the Balkan Mountains and we just had the first frost last night. So I think the season for picking mushrooms is slowly drawing to and end.
Anyway, I had some great hours in the woods, all on my own, enjoying the peace of nature in this beautiful part of the world :-)
all pictures by me