Mushroom Hunting in the Rain

 

Last week we meet Tim’s sister and mother in

Skagway to visit Elijah and Laura. They prepared

us a fabulous meal of the reddest Sockeye Salmon

I have ever seen, just caught the day before. Laura

baked homemade bagels, which we topped with her homemade guacamole. And a fresh salad that we

went and collected from a plot they have at the community garden. And, I almost forgot, fried  potato with wild mushrooms. 

No, I’m not making this up!

Now you know why I said it was ‘fabulous’.

This is the wild mushroom that was chopped and fried with our potatoes. After we had eaten Laura

wanted to go back to the forest in Dyea to find another one-and she did. I would be scared to death

to try anything other than store-bought mushroom or morels, since I grew up eat ting them.

But Laura has schooling in horticulture and dives

right into the local culture to discover what wild

edibles there are in the region.

I’m afraid my mind takes a trip down memory lane

to that old Eastwood movie, “The Beguiled”

If you’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking  about!

If you haven’t, rent it.

The drive between Skagway and Carcross is my

most favorite. You feel at times that you have entered into another world. You do truly have to

be there to get the full impact-pictures just don’t

do it justice, for sure.

This is a photo of ‘Bove Island’. It is on Tagish Lake.



This is a panoramic I did of Tagish Lake and the

mountains. I has been cloudy here a lot this summer, but it is still beautiful.

These flowers were growing out of the side of

the mountain rock at an elevation of 3292!

So amazing.

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I hope you enjoyed seeing the Yukon through

my eyes this summer. It is a mystical land

to visit. But I’m so looking forward to getting

back to my very own ‘Githee Gumee’.