Sweden 2005

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Monday, September 19, 2005

Big Mushroom/Blueberry Hunt

Well, Sture and Lena wanted to show me some more nice forested/laked area, so they drove about 30-45 minutes (North) to a more rural area. (I think that besides Stockholm and Goteborg all of Sweden is pretty rural.) Anyway, my ideal was to look at the scenery, but there was bigger game afoot.
This is Sture's Toyota HiAce that got us to the starting point of the walk. It is 9 years old and still going strong.
Sture is leading Lena and myself through rougher country than either of us had anticipated.
It is difficult to find a path, and the ground is very soft. Sture doesn't mind.
Lena finally convinces Sture to turn back and go back down the hill we had been climbing.
When we went down towards the lake, we were greeted with this lovely view.
Mind you, Sture can always find another hill to climb.
We saw an interesting granite formation on the way.
Here is another view of the granite bluff next to the lake.
Once we found this beautiful stand of edible mushrooms, we knew the hunt was on. Big, beautiful blueberries were also present in abundance.
Here is an image of the mushroom bounty. The yellow kind is much more common, and the only kind that I can safely recognize. The white kind is highly prized. We had mushroom and cheese omelets the next morning. With the blueberries we picked, Lena fixed blueberry cobbler for dessert that evening. (I'd say we picked about 2 pints of blueberries.)
Here is we sat down and had tea and biscuits after a hard afternoon of tracking the wild mushroom and blueberry.

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