Tag / Interlake

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Got a little delayed in updating postings here as a new grandson arrived a few weeks back so you can imagine that I have been a little busy lately.  Anyway, I have so many new photos to share from this past summer and will be posting as usual every four days.  Today I thought some late summer & fall photos of rural Manitoba would be timely.  With the winds we experienced last week most leaves have blown off the trees now but fall is still a most beautiful season and happens to be a favourite season of mine and many people that I know.

Below: Cooks Creek

Below:  Canola Field in the Interlake area

Below: Country church near Portage la Prairie

Below: Farm Field in the Carberry area

Enjoy!

~Sharon

Our family knows these mushrooms as “peetpanky” . . . don’t ask me how it is really spelled so you are getting the phonetic version.  Nor do I know the actual name of these mushrooms.  Having said that, these are one of the varieties of mushrooms that are harvested late summer by experienced mushroom pickers.  Still, I would not venture out on my own and take a guess on a safe mushroom unless I was with someone that could absolutely confirm they are safe for eating. These remain a popular food item in the Interlake Area but also grow in other forests in our province.   The mushrooms in the photos below definitely are safe and edible and the family will be enjoying them throughout the winter.  Thanks to my cousins for taking these photos – I was busy with my son’s wedding when these were in abundance and couldn’t get out to take the photos so when she called to ask if she could help with anything I said Yes – please take some photos of your mushrooms for me.  She even picked and cleaned some for my family -  thanks Deb! They picked pails and pails of them this year and they grow in the bush right in her own back yard.

Below a few closer views.

Enjoy!

~Sharon

A member of the woodpecker family seen here getting sap from a tree in the Interlake.  If you look closely at the next photo,  you can see the sapsucker’s tongue  at the dripping tree sap.   Fairly large birds with some yellow on the belly as their name would imply.

Enjoy!

~Sharon