Pam and Heather's excellent adventure

Every May for the past few years, your scrapblog editor and her trusty hiking pal Heather M. have bushwhacked through the woods admiring the forest-floor scenery, wiping out in the mud and scaring the deer without ever finding even one morel mushroom. That all changed yesterday when we found 72 of the preciousssss fungi in three top-secret locations. Some snapshots:

Oh yeah! We score!

Our first site yielded a pillowful.

One of scores of morels Heather found.
 The little buggers aren't easy to see; Heather, who has a careful photographer's eye, was better at spotting them than I was.

More and more morels!

The spring woods are full of many lovely things beyond morels. Heather took this photo of a fern.
 

 We also stopped to admire the lilacs on my Old Frontenac property, which may or may not be near the morel lode.

Someday I'll live on this land and be able to enjoy the lilacs every May day instead of having to drive so far to visit them.

The sweet scent of spring.

We also stopped at the Old Frontenac beach. The water was quite high, but not as high as it's been this spring, as you can tell from the water lines on the big cottonwoods.

Heather's fine photographer's eye caught a lot of beauty everywhere, including on the beach. In addition to our morels, we brought home a deer skull, a deer pelvic bone, a fox jawbone, and a lot of pretty driftwood and rocks we found on our various ramblings. As we said to each other, it's just like one of those fun adventures you have when you're a kid!