Wildlife – MOOSE, MUSHROOMS, and MUD

Field to Forest Pot Pie

A very satisfying meal, in more ways than one.
A meal that is created from hunting, foraging and gardening finds!

Creatures Great and Small

Getting up close to the living world around us.

Can you pass the Mushroom Ketchup please?

If you are reading this, I’d like to relish the fact that you’ve mustard up the courage to ketchup to my level.
As a hunter-gatherer and a consumer of food grown on a farm or a greenhouse, I am always on the look out to combine all the flavors, wild or not, in new and interesting ways. Why just have Tomato Ketchup when you can have Mushroom Ketchup?

Part 1: Adventures of Tolly and PomPom

Deer, Daisies, and Dirt: My Mini-Me! Adelynne is my young and spirited daughter who has many hobbies and interests. She likes to bake, ski, wood burn, knit, paint, draw, and create stories. She started working on a comic strip that shows the friendship of a Baby Fox and a Baby Bunny. It’s an unlikely friendship…

Itty Bitty Baby Birds: A Montage of Digital Artistic Photos

I have found this fun Photo filter that takes my photographs and converts them to look like paintings. I simply love the effect. I like these better than my original photographs; I like the feel, the movement and the vibrancy in the newly converted photos. It’s the artist in me. You’ll be seeing a whole lot more of this type of ‘artwork’.

Birds of Prey: A Montage of Digital Artistic Photos

By: Moose, Mushrooms and Mud January 18, 2020January 17, 2020

Adventure, Art Work, Bird Watching, Birds, forest, Nature, Outdoors, Paintings, WildlifeBird Watching, Birds of Prey, Eagles, Hawks, Osprey, OwlsLeave a Comment

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‘Bear’ with me: the Bear facts, the Bear truth, and left Bear naked

THERE’S ONE! Ugh! You are a beautiful color phase Black Bear, but I have to pass you up. It’s Saturday, it’s hot outside and I cannot process you without spoiling before I get back home tomorrow. OH WAIT! THERE’S ANOTHER ONE! Wow! You are a gorgeous color phase Black Bear, all brown and blonde. Wait…are…

The Perilous Voyage to Anderson and Seton Lake

I’m not a complete wimp…I did have my eyes open the majority of the trip. I’m being dramatic. It is a freaky thing to know that you could plummet to your death multiple times on a voyage.

Bison Hunt 2017: The Prep

By: Moose, Mushrooms and Mud November 22, 2017November 22, 2017

Bison, hunting, Life Lessons, Living off the land, Uncategorized, Wild FoodBison, bison hunt, Connections, Hunt, hunter-gatherer, hunting, It's in my blood, LEH, Living off the land, Self DiscoveryLeave a Comment

Dread. Fear. Excitement. Hope…I feel all these things as I lay in bed 5:00am this morning. One week. One more week until the trucks and trailers are loaded to head North for seven days. Yep. I can feel the pressure. I can feel the sweat along my hairline start to creep in. I shed a…