What the Rain Brings

Slugs and Fungi, at least.

This spring is another wet and cool one.  We got all excited by a (brief) shot of warm weather in mid-May and planted a bunch of stuff in our garden, only to see the eggplant, basil and peppers turn yellow and wan in the subsequent rains.  However, as the season has progressed things _have_ gotten a little better.  At least we have some radishes:

 And here is a shot of the whole garden.  The tomatoes are on the right, with all the rebar poles.  Eventually we will have the cages up.  Interesting note:  the stuff that's doing the best (other than radishes, which are hard to screw up) is a patch of asian greens that volunteered.  We just left them and are using them in stir frys, etc.

On a trip back from Bend, we stopped by one of our favorite mushrooming spots around Mt. Hood.   We'd hoped the recent rains had restarted the Morel season.  No such luck:  but we did find a nice batch of Boletus Rex-Veris (B. "True King"), which is basically a spring version of B. Edulis.  We made some cep soup last night and that was pretty tasty.

Here's a photo of our find:

...not too bad for about an hour's work.