2018 NH Summer/SH Winter Photo Thread

garden at my place. Herbs



vegetables; too much rain this season. Hard to spot the veggies



thunderstorm yesterday

hot, hazy and humid lately. Supposed to get better after Saturday. How long are you here for?

Nice marijuana plants... but they're quite small! 

After hearing other people of the village talking about how many mushrooms there are in the woods in these days, we decided to try again to look for some. (Clarification: in here everyone looks for porcini mushrooms, which are among the best tasting edible mushrooms and the best ones for risotto).

Other note: some pictures are blurry because of the zoom or because the autofocus of the cellphone failed to decently focus. We were on a quite slippery terrain, so I could not always loose too much time on pictures or go closer than this.

We actually managed to find quite a lot of them, we were the first to be surprised! Those mushrooms like chestnut trees, oaks and beech trees, so we pointed to a large wood of wild chestnut trees.




^ the both of these are porcini mushrooms


This little guy had a quite malicious look instead (it was really small, so for this picture I had to zoom in too much):



This one instead looks quite similar to porcini, but has a brighter color and turns blue/purple when you touch or cut it. Some of these mushrooms are poisonous, and also the edible ones are not so good, so we left it where we found it.



No idea about what these are instead.




The average terrain where we were walking was more or less like this, and particularly slippery because in the last few days it rained quite a lot and so the terrain below the fallen leaves was quite muddy too. When looking for mushrooms we usually don't follow real paths, we basically looked at the base of every chestnut tree we could reach.


We also saw quite a lot of animal footprints around in the mud. This is a deer one. Actually, we also saw a deer crossing the road while driving to that part of the wood.



There was also a point from which the wood opened and it was possible to see the valley. As you can see, today is quite cloudy overall.



We also reached a waterfall, I actually like this one quite a lot. It looks really wild, with the water coming down from the rock and everything.

Baba's tree is probably Manchurian walnut.


Today on Brighton Beach. Morning was cloudy, sun came out after 2 pm. It was a nice beach.

rozenn

That area does have somewhat of a Midwestern vibe to it since it's a bit flatter than the more mountainous regions of the Poconos and Northern NJ. 

There were not much waves indeed taking into account it was in fact  the high ocean. As well there were no storms yesterday. Yes, I can speak and there were indeed many Russians were. I read the area is called "Little Odessa" - an with reason. There are many Russian shops and food stores there, they sell as well Baltic herrings  made in Latvia,  sprats in oil etc and even curd snacks - the latter ones are so specifically a Baltic product. So it was funny to see that some of the items what were in the store there were exactly identical to those what are sold in food stores in Estonia.