I'm Kaylah. thrifting queen. 
I feel like spring and summer are going too fast. It's almost July which means it's almost my birthday (August 2nd!) then once it hits August it feels like downhill battle from there, like one day you just wake up and it's snowing. Well, that's how my brain processes it at least. :P
I am thoroughly enjoying my nice weather months. We go mushrooms picking at least once a week. Last week we even got in trouble for it. Did you know you need a permit? I sure didn't. Apparently since park land is owned by everyone in the county, they're everyone's mushrooms and the park needs to know how many mushrooms are leaving. (seriously?) The ranger was a real jerk about it, acted like we were committing some heinous act. (95% of them we pick aren't edible anyway...) So now we are working on getting a permit so next time he doesn't make me dump my basket like a child.
Here are some recent pictures from our adventures in the park and at my parents house...
I can't wait to have property of our own to explore, not that I don't love my parent's woods because I most certainly do but it'll be so nice to just go outside and wander around in the woods instead of having to drive a half hour.
Well I've got to run now but I hope you're all having an awesome weekend!
xoxo
I am thoroughly enjoying my nice weather months. We go mushrooms picking at least once a week. Last week we even got in trouble for it. Did you know you need a permit? I sure didn't. Apparently since park land is owned by everyone in the county, they're everyone's mushrooms and the park needs to know how many mushrooms are leaving. (seriously?) The ranger was a real jerk about it, acted like we were committing some heinous act. (95% of them we pick aren't edible anyway...) So now we are working on getting a permit so next time he doesn't make me dump my basket like a child.
Here are some recent pictures from our adventures in the park and at my parents house...
Well I've got to run now but I hope you're all having an awesome weekend!
xoxo
Amazing pictures! Sorry to hear that, is there any way you guys could get a permit?
ReplyDeleteI suppose maybe there are some "endangered mushrooms" and picking them might help their exstinction, but still he could've been nicer.
Yep, like I said, we're working on it. Just trying to find a time when the county office is actually open, they have such silly hours.
ReplyDeleteThere are most definitely no "endangered mushrooms". :P
oh my goodness, is that a snake in your basket? because it looks like one!
ReplyDeleteHaha ok, I'd never heard of them either, but somehow humans have a way of "endangering" a lot of stuff;) Glad to hear mushrooms are safe though:P
ReplyDeleteI'll keep my fingers crossed for you! Silly hours are so annoying, one of the cutest shops in Amsterdam(where I live) just isn't open ever it seems! hope you'll get luckier.
Sarah, sure is. He hung out with us for the hike and then we let him go right where we found him before we left. :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh that picture of the two tiny frogs is unbelievable! And the orange mushrooms, too! : )
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Great pictures! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I know what you feel like. Here in Finland it feels the same...winter ends by Mid-April and it's snowing again in the beginning of November. May and June are Spring month and there might be a few warm days in July...so basically August to September is Autumn (I LOVE it!)...yeah...and half a year winter ;)
Wow, you always take the best photos (especially of nature)!
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Lovely pics (except the spider one ahhhhhggg) In Spain is too warm to go outside!!! Enjoy your good weather :)
ReplyDeletehaha i love the frogs! they look so cute :)!
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Wow - that snake in the basket one freaked me out a bit! Prob because here in Australia we have a crazy amount of poisonous snakes :) Our house backs onto a beautiful nature reserve, but I can tell you now, there's noway I'm picking up any snakes there! Luckily however, our yard is full of awesome blue tongue lizards - they are so damn cool!
ReplyDeleteI love those bright yellow mushrooms!! So pretty!
Good luck with the permit! It's gonna be awesome if you come across the same ranger and you can pull out your permit and wave it in his rude face :)
Your photos brought back my sweet frog-memories from childhood. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAh!! Amazing pictures. Love the snake and crawdaddy!! :D
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs!!!
ReplyDeleteah! little bird's nest fungi are soooo cool!
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is that frog sticking out of the jaws of? That one caught my interest!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures! And same as Angie ... I want to know what's up with the frog and the teeth?? What a cool photo!
ReplyDeleteis that toad coming out of a skull?! and a snack in that basket with the mushrooms?! i need to come to your parents house haha
ReplyDeleteI know you you feel! I can't wait till I own my own land in the forest and can explore, forage, and do whatever I want in it. Every time I want to do that now I have to drive somewhere...ugh. And dontcha just hate mean rangers? Whenever I go out into the forest, I have a green dress I wear that has a pocket saying 'Junior Park Ranger' which I keep loaded up with Smokey the Bear stickers to give away. I think it would be funny if a Ranger were to get mad at me for something and I tried to explain that I love rangers, the forest, ect. Hahaha. my boyfriend's dad even jokes that we should boss people around in the forest since we look like real rangers in our matching green outfits.
ReplyDeleteWow! What a jerk! You can have my share of the country's wild mushrooms. Also, I love all the critters you found! Good luck getting your permit <3
ReplyDeletewow these pictures are so lovely. I'm very jealous of all the nature you have around you. I do have frogs in my garden though :)
ReplyDeleteShame about the run-in with the law, but the pictures are amazing! Nature is so cool.
ReplyDeleteaww such cute frogs.
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What a jobsworth park ranger, hope you manage to get a permit.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of snake is that?! I'm so glad we don't really get snakes here in the UK, they freak me out!
These are awesome pictures! I love those frogs, they're so cute!
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I agree summer always flies by. We must embrace each moment- Im really trying to do that this summer. Awesome shots- love the frogs and the mushrooms!
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Wow, that frog creeping out of the skull/mouth, i had to take a second and third look, so recognize the skull! And those yellow wood mushrooms are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWhat's that lobster looking critter? I've never seen anything quite like that...
ReplyDeleteAwesome frog & critter shots! Especially the two frogs squeezes in the fingers. I love macro shots.
ReplyDeletewow, a permit to pick mushrooms....at least you got to take some photos of really cool big much®ooms you picked
ReplyDeleteHahaha wow, I can't believe you need a permit, how bizarre! Lovely pictures, thanks for sharing them :)
ReplyDeleteWow, what amazing photographs. Nature at it's best. I 2nd all those concerns about the snake, but like another comment said, here in Australia its a huge no no ...
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ReplyDeleteWell, I think the ranger might have been concerned because mushrooms continue dropping spores for a long time after they've been picked. So, one may spread the specie of fungus to an environment where it doesn't belong. I can't think of any other real reason. Regardless, good luck getting your permit!
ReplyDeleteCurious, if you aren't eating the mushrooms... What do you do with them? It's a shame to pick a mushroom and do nothing with it...
What a park ranger poop head! See, I would deserve to dump my basket out like a kiddy because I call people poop heads. hah!
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Good luck with that :D
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I loooove these. I also think the ittle wittle frogs are adorable. And what is the little cute thing with the pincers? And IS THAT A SNAKE IN YOUR BASKET?! If so. AWESOME!!!
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Erin & Lemme, it's a crayfish (or crawdad), they are freshwater crustaceans. :)
ReplyDeleteIs that a frog being eaten by a skull?! Ahaha, kinda gave me the shivers for a second.
ReplyDeleteA skull can't eat anything because it's not alive. ;)
ReplyDeleteThese are just gorgeous. You have a real knack for taking pictures my dear!
ReplyDeletewow i didn't know you need a permit either! i wonder if that is true for every county & state...
ReplyDeletei feel that way too...time is slipping away so fast...so many things i want to do before the summer is over! thank goodness we have a great fall here :D
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That picture of the orange ones is incredible!
ReplyDeleteI have these crazy mushrooms that grow in my yard and I think of you every time a new one sprouts. haha. =]
I'm sorry the ranger made you dumb your basket. That's so dumb. It's like, they're already picked..let you have them. What's he going to do, put them back into the ground?
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Aw, tiny frogs and crayfish! I love it.
ReplyDeleteDo you pick the mushrooms to eat?!!
ReplyDeleteMy birthday is only 2 days after yours!!
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do they make you dump your basket because you could be possibly disturbing an eco-system too? maybe that's another reason or something. :\
ReplyDeleteHAHA, I definitely just did a huge double-take because of that snake all curled up in your mushroom basket!
ReplyDeleteIs that some kind of animal skull the frog is sitting in?! And what kind of snake is that in the basket?!?
ReplyDeleteI aboslutely love this post! The little snake and toads and everything is soo cute and amazing! You are really inspiring to me :)
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