Surprised to find there is no official forum space for nature, wild fauna and flora. So here is goes.
I grew up in the Jura mountains, straddling France and Switzerland - and was taught by my dad about so much to do with nature. But our best times together were always foraging for wild mushrooms in late Summer and Autumn- my very favourite season.
Today he would have been 106 - he died, fit as a fiddle but of a broken heart, 10 years ago, just a few months after mum who had been ill and unwell for a long time.
So this sunny, bright day- I'll had to our favourite stop up the mountain in France- and have a good foray. Perhaps too early, but it does not matter. I shall hear his voice telling me- look around that tree, it's a good one- no need to go over there, it's rubbish, and so on. And then calling me with a massive smile if he'd found a 'treasure' - or coming running to me, if I'd found something.
But that is by the by- any wild mushroom foragers on GN?
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