Ma and Pa Steinmetzer came for a visit with Sister Deanna this August. We had great fun showing them the Alaskan wilds!!!!
We showed them the woods around town, and this beautiful amenita muscaria was at one of our trailheads. Mushrooms abounded for their trip! It was the perfect week for mushroom picking in Seward, so we brought home more than one bag of mushrooms to identify over their stay. Our little apartment was overrun with fungus and family.
At the end of the trail, a bridge crosses a stream. Virtually every stream in Alaska is a salmon stream, so Ma and Pa are dutifully watching the drama of Salmon Smackdown taking place in the spawning bed below. As males fight for females, they chase and bite each other in a much more epic and gruesome war than any Ultimate Fighting Championship battle you'd see from your couch on the telly.
More mushies!! These are some king boletes along the trail. We picked them, and were all quite excited to try them for dinner. They're a large and very choice edible, but Tyler and I had yet to actually find them and try them. Unfortunately, when we cut them open to finish the ID process at home, we found the maggots had already made their way inside the mushroom. Sadly, we had no harvest fo
More mushies!! These are some king boletes along the trail. We picked them, and were all quite excited to try them for dinner. They're a large and very choice edible, but Tyler and I had yet to actually find them and try them. Unfortunately, when we cut them open to finish the ID process at home, we found the maggots had already made their way inside the mushroom. Sadly, we had no harvest for the family to try.
Deanna and I went on a hike by ourselves while my parents went fishing. We came across three moose swimming across a pond only about 3 miles from our apartment. Swim, moosies, swim!
Deanna and I went on a hike by ourselves while my parents went fishing. We came across three moose swimming across a pond only about 3 miles from our apartment. Swim, moosies, swim!
We spent a few days on the other side of the penninsula in Homer, where we saw our very first Alaskan slugs! We had always been told that slugs couldn't live this far north, but there they were, those 3 inch long little beauties. Oh, the slimey things we miss about Washington...
We ended up with AMAZING weather while there and took this nice fresh family portrait. A very Alaskan view, I think.
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