Today, we finally had some time to drive out of the town to the mountains... not far from our home, just 30 minutes by car, we ended up in this beautiful spot. A hiking trail through a huge bamboo forest...
...and those beautiful lillies and other flowers like Violets grow there, too. Actually, when I see Violets, I know that morels could be close, so we searched and searched, but had no luck. We even were not sure if the season is right here...
we continued our drive through the beautiful countryside... also keeping an eye on places where morels could possibly grow, but nothing...
Then, really just 5m away from our appartement, Yumi suddenly screamed... there WAS really a morel there... so the truth is sometimes closer, than we expect ;)
From the sight of it, it seems the season for morchella conica is almost over, so we were a little bit too late looking in the mountains, but hopefully we will find morchella esculenta soon.
Oh, and here is, what I cooked on Friday. Mentaiko sourcream-pasta with Ikura topping.
Beautiful photos! I thought that first one was a new painting when I initially saw it on Blogger. Ha ha.
ReplyDelete^_^ Thanks... It's actually the first time that I see those bamboo-forests for "real". In Hokkaido it was too cold for those big ones. Nature here in Kyushu is different, but also very beautiful and I can't wait to explore more of it.
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