Purple Mushrooms

   Did you know there was such a thing?  Purple mushrooms?  In all my years of trudging through the woods on horseback or with dogs, I did not.  A local friend who goes mushroom hunting on a regular basis  posted a few pictures recently, and I was amazed!  Purple Mushrooms?  What? 

    The bullshittery that is occurring in Washington has me (and a zillion other people)  on edge lately, and the best way I know how to  get away from all the nonsense is to get out in nature – put my face to the wind on the water or take a hike in the woods with the dogs.   Yesterday I left the dogs behind to avoid their tread on what I was looking for, and went exploring in the woods behind our farm – in search of the elusive Purple Mushroom.   I knew the odds would be in my favor after the recent 8.5 inch rainfall in our area.  I kid you not – local roads were flooded, some caved in due to rivers run amok adjacent to them… driveways washed out, a local restaurant with a river alongside it had water on it’s first floor, water coming in the windows – it was that crazy. )   Seems our weather is becoming more extreme with each year – this past winter brought unrelenting cold, then the summer held unrelenting humidity – and now crazy amounts of rainfall as autumn slides in. 

  The hunt!…