Wednesday Walk - A Busy Day

Here are a few shots from a busy day for this #wednesdaywalk

We did a quick morning walk around the neighborhood and found some fun things in people's yards. Looks like someone was playing with trolls and a mushroom house here.

Another yard has the start of a peace sign rock formation. Maybe they are still painting the rest of the rocks for the bottom two legs.

Next we rushed off to an outdoor concert. This concert featured a Mongolian Morin Khuur player who can also overtone sing. After the show my wife showed the baby the fiddles. She is always grabbing my guitar strings at home so she instantly wanted to grab the fiddle strings.

Here's one of the songs from the concert.

The concert was at an arboretum so we did quite a bit of walking afterwards. Along this path we found loads of chanterelles.

We found quite a few so I had to dehydrate all the extra mushrooms for use later. We made omelettes and pizza with the fresh ones.

Along the walk we found some wild grapes. I've read about people actually making wine out of these things. Who knows if the wine tastes any good though, could be terrible lol.

The milkweed is blooming nicely. Lots of butterflies are out but this day was rainy and they had to hide.

Fortunately the rain also waterlogged the mosquitos. I suspect millions of mosquitos hatch out of this swamp.

Here is Duchesnea indica aka mock strawberry. Sadly these aren't edible.

They startout as yellow flowers then grow these strawberry formations. I tasted one once but it was bitter and tasted like eating a random leaf off a tree.

Now its time to go grocery shopping. I wish I could have caught the sunset in a more natural setting.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)