Found this delightful little creature in my garden box this morning. And then, this afternoon when I was tramping down to our cutting garden (I was going to help do some weeding) what should I find but earthstar mushrooms.
DO NOT eat these. Actually, I consider anyone who eats any mushroom that they forage to be somewhat foolhardy.
Cecil Durham – age 25 – shown here in one of his only happy memories of World War II. Taken in Finchaven, New Guinea in 1944 with his lieutenant and the chief of the local tribe of head hunters.
Today would be Cecil’s 98th birthday – if we Durhams lived that long. We don’t.
Funny thing is – one of the first people I met here at the Asylum had been a nurse in New Guinea during WWII. She still lives here, but doesn’t remember things too very well. But she is very sure about having been a nurse in New Guinea. She is also sure that she was born about 20 miles up the winding road from where I was born in West Virginia.