These Are Good Days to Live Out In the Woods

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Mark Zeiger

One of my favorite sayings: “There’s a reason I live out in the woods.”

Seems as if those reasons have piled up lately . . . .

The Zeiger Homestead cabin

“Cabin, cabin in the woods…” a true refuge from the evil of the world (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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Morels for Mother’s Day

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Mark Zeiger

Thursday afternoon, I wandered by the homestead’s original rhubarb patch to look for morel mushrooms.

In 2013, to my complete surprise and delight, I found a morel growing out of the garden mound (see Miracle Morel). A mushroom returned in roughly that same spot for a year or two after that, then nothing. Still, I watched the spot, and hoped.

Predictably, I found nothing there. Then I glanced around the rest of the rhubarb mound, then did a double take. I found a morel elsewhere on the mound, then a second one on the opposite side of the patch!

morel mushroom

This is the smaller of the two morels (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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