need i even say anything? it's this time of year now.. i picked a litre of blueberries (technically bilberries but i just can't call them anything other than blue) and then probably ate as much, just sitting there among the marsh labrador tea. i need to bring bigger buckets next time. i thought things would stay more fun if there was only a litre to pick each day, but i forgot what a hamster inside me gets unleashed when the berries just keep on growing everywhere. some cloudberries, too. four to be precise. i need to check the other bog for more this week, the one i discovered last year.
i love how it's so much cooler now, i can actually get things done. or, at least the woodsy things... i doused myself in citronella oil, but there were no mosquitoes to speak of, it was so windy today. only, one bit my hand right after i reapplied the oil, which says a lot about finnish mosquitoes. they just have no idea they're supposed to be repelled by this and that...
look how much the reishi has grown!
the 'wings' on each side i cut off for myself, but i don't think i'll pick this one. a new one didn't grow in place of the other one, and i don't want to lose this fungus. i made some tea from the fresh flesh and for the first time tasted the bitterness everyone always complains about. i still liked it, though. i need to get back in the habit of drinking mushroom teas every day, and herbs too. i practically live in a pharmacy, yet never take the medicine, just complain about feeling awful... so stupid.
more and more stress keeps piling up, if i didn't have the woods to go to, i don't know what i would do.
