Two weeks into running on these Brooks Pure Grit "minimalist" trail shoe and loving them. Light, lots of flex, grippy, and only 4mm heel-toe offset. Fun shoes that replace my Brooks Cascadia 3's, which were awesome, but long overdue for retirement.

Fun small surf after work on friday, although the water was brown from all the blown out rivers, after a week of rain. Watched this flock of late migrating geese fly low over us while we bobbed around catching some little fun ones.

Cleaning stinging nettles and watching Ryder Hesjedal win the Giro d’Italia....although that's not him in this shot.

Some mushrooms on a log. Not sure that you would want to eat these, but fun to look at.

A good day in May. Warm and summer like, but still May. Plenty on the go lately, including some tasty black morels, a couple more steelhead, and good times with family and friends.  hells yeah !

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photo's by eric berglund

Foragetastic. Another weekend of blueberry picking yielded a nice haul. Not the number of berries we were seeing last year, but at the same time, nothing to complain about either. A scoop of blueberries on our cereal for everyday of the year.
We like berries!

Some strawberries we picked at the u-pick back in July. Not foraging perse, but foody goodness for the winter non the less.

Stemmed and ready for the freezer.


A lot with the food and plants these days, but that's just how we roll.

be well
peace
e


photos by eric berglund

I'll be honest. Throwin down b-log posts during the summer months just aint easy. On the go and enjoying the heat while we've got it. It's August...and us at the fresh aspect headquarters are foraging our little hearts out. And it's dam good.
Some nice redpines

Little hands filling little bellies with blue gold.

Some delectable fungi.



keep on keepin on.

peace e

photo's by eric berglund

Abstract photo by the kiddo and king boletes.



Some king boletes that N. scored while out walking at noon hour.

Boletus edulis




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First photo by O.Berglund (age 2 and 3weeks)
Second by e.

Much love for Lake Superior. A windy, rainy and gloomy day brought some damn fine waves; especially for this time of year. Thanks mother nature.

John slides along on a cruisey left last night.


Some 'urban' foraging turned up these oyster mushrooms growing on an aspen snag down by the creek.


The little man enjoying a warm day by the lake, throwing sticks.




be well

peace
e

Been a while. But also been on the go.

Fresh fiddleheads on the menu.



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e

photo by eric berglund

We forage and we like it!
Awesome mushroom hunt the other day, yielded some choice edibles.

Lobster mushrooms (Hypomyces lactifluorum)...(Note: a mushroom but not actually a mushroom; rather a parasitic ascomycete that grows on the Russula and Lactarius species). Same color as their namesake and seafoody tasting as well.

AhhYEAH! Golden Chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius). So incredibly stoked to have found this stash.

A fresh home cooked creation using all local foods.


thankful

peace
e

photo's by
eric berglund

To the woods we go.

A basket full of treats:
Pigs ear, Comb tooth, L.subglabripes and Aspsopp

the foragers...
(note the ecstatic look of the women on the cover of the field guide)


Comb tooth (Hericium coralloides) prior to saute event

Leccinum subglabripes...awaiting the drying rack.

While some are better left alone on the forest floor



peace


photo's by e.

Home from work, jam back a litre of water and a snack, put on the overalls despite the fact that it's the warmest day of the summer thus far. Nance and i load Oskar, and Lutsen and book it for the "secret" spot. It's that time of year when blue gold abounds, the thought of blueberries on your cereal every day for a year keeps you stoked on pickin, even when you might rather be swimmin. Bit of a recon mission this eve, just to get an idea of where things are at. Things are in fact lookin good and the potential is there to cash in on the motherload in the next week, provided Oskar continues to cooperate with dozing in the snugly and Lutsen avoids more skunk encounters...dam he still stinks.

headed in to the aforementioned secret spot

the booty

watch that you don't get these in the booty



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e

photo's by: eric berglund