Oyster Mushroom, choice edible
After the Barter Fair I enjoyed fall mushroom gathering in southwest Oregon before resuming my gypsy life. There isn’t a side dish any better than sautéed wild mushrooms. But just like any wild edible, know what you’re eating.
Colleen & Dave’s 1954 Sears kit-cabin
The monthly gathering of the Domino Dames fell on Halloween where we gathered at Colleen’s for a full day of eating, drinking and playing Mexican Train Dominoes.
Arizona desert
As the temperatures began to drop in Oregon I felt the draw of the southern desert and returned to Yarnell to park where I had the previous winter.
Little house/garage
On the property where I park there is a little house, actually a partially converted garage. So Berta and I set up a bunch of tables inside and put out stuff to sell. About once a month, when we felt like it, we’d put up signs and have a garage sale. Both of us are notorious collectors, so once in a while have to high grade to make room.
Set up to sell
This was the first winter I actually got a land-line telephone and went online with dial-up. Believe me, it was a giant step. And as you all know, the internet is addictive, and I didn’t even know what a blog was. Yet I spent a lot of time sitting at my computer and looking out the window at the birds…
Gambel’s Quail
…and other wildlife.
Mule deer
Towards the end of March I hooked up the 5th-wheel and went to sell my jewelry at the Deming, New Mexico Gem and Mineral Show. Sold a little, bought more, and had a great time with rock people.
My booth
As spring arrived I camped in the desert knowing that this winter of fun was almost over and I’d soon be moving on once again.
Sunrise near Freeman Road, southeastern Arizona
After the Barter Fair I enjoyed fall mushroom gathering in southwest Oregon before resuming my gypsy life. There isn’t a side dish any better than sautéed wild mushrooms. But just like any wild edible, know what you’re eating.
Colleen & Dave’s 1954 Sears kit-cabin
The monthly gathering of the Domino Dames fell on Halloween where we gathered at Colleen’s for a full day of eating, drinking and playing Mexican Train Dominoes.
Arizona desert
As the temperatures began to drop in Oregon I felt the draw of the southern desert and returned to Yarnell to park where I had the previous winter.
Little house/garage
On the property where I park there is a little house, actually a partially converted garage. So Berta and I set up a bunch of tables inside and put out stuff to sell. About once a month, when we felt like it, we’d put up signs and have a garage sale. Both of us are notorious collectors, so once in a while have to high grade to make room.
Set up to sell
This was the first winter I actually got a land-line telephone and went online with dial-up. Believe me, it was a giant step. And as you all know, the internet is addictive, and I didn’t even know what a blog was. Yet I spent a lot of time sitting at my computer and looking out the window at the birds…
Gambel’s Quail
…and other wildlife.
Mule deer
Towards the end of March I hooked up the 5th-wheel and went to sell my jewelry at the Deming, New Mexico Gem and Mineral Show. Sold a little, bought more, and had a great time with rock people.
My booth
As spring arrived I camped in the desert knowing that this winter of fun was almost over and I’d soon be moving on once again.
Sunrise near Freeman Road, southeastern Arizona
Wonderful post and pics, bet you sold many items
Great shots, I just had to add your site to my followers list.
Have a great week!
Guy
Regina In Pictures
I love that mushroom photo. And was that cabin really made from a kit? sounds like a great way to spend the winter.
I love to photograph wild mushrooms and to eat ones someone else has provided (be it a store or someone who knows what they are doing). I wish I knew how to pick the edible ones. All of these shots are great but my favorite is the mushroom and the last shot of the mountain in that beautiful lights. Great post.
Great post and thanks for taking us along with you. Looks like lots of fun. Great photos! Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful post. That’s a big mushroom.
I’ve had some strange animals eat the bird food in the garden but never a deer. That mushroom too the biggest funghi I’ve seen for a while. Always so diverse here.
That’s an awesome looking mushroom – it looks huge! What fun you always seem to have! Sometimes I wish we could trade lives for a day! Love your last photo of the beautiful Arizona sunrise too… (sigh)
The mushroom photo is fascinating with those vertical plants in the background. Your jewelery sales look so organized and fun. And, I like the picture of the mule deer trying to sample the bird seeds.
Gaelyn: Thanks for the great show of flora and fauna of the southwest. I loved your quail photo.
It looks as if you had a wonderful winter. I’m looking forward to the next chapter.
it looked like you had a great outdoor experience there. Thanks for sharing
I liked the mule deer and sunrise pics best, and the quail parade, and the mushroom-in-detail. And I am always fascinated by GG RVer. ‘sold a little, bought more’ – I am bemused!
thanks for this wonderful tour of a combined desert and park.
My contribution this week is the beautiful island-paradise of Camiguin posted here
I love this installment. Especially the deer eating from the feeder, the quail and the Arizona sunset.
As always, you have me on the edge of my seat wondering where you are going next!
Those oyster mushrooms do look good. And that cabin is very cute. When we lived in winthrop we had a few white tailed deer that would eat out of the feeder too on their tippy toes.
Gaelyn, I think I know of the guy you mentioned with my name. He is this cool biologist that is a specialist in recording animals and nature. He does great work. He can record an ecosystem and from the harmonics he can tell if certain animals have disappeared or gone extince because certain frequencies are not being utilized. However, we are not related. That would be cool if we were though.
I love that mushroom Gaelyn and the last picture of the sunset. It looks like there is a great variety of things to sell there in the house.
Terrific photos! I won’t even ask what ‘mexican train dominoes’ is!
I loved the photos of the cheeky deer and the mushroom – it has amazing texture. I’m looking forward to seeing where you go next week!
As always, it sounds like quite the adventure! I love the quail, when we were in Winthrop, we had California Quail that lived in our area, and I could watch them for hours dart from here to there, and eat under the feeders.
How do you store all your collections? You must be very good at organizing and packing, to get everything to fit in your trailer. Looks like fun doing your different sales.
I know, its hard once you get addicted to the internet…. Oh well. =)
Love the gypsy life! Wonderful lifestyle and wildlife and meeting s many people along the way. Your garage sale is beautifully set up.
What next?
Nice to learn about your part of the world. You have such a huge collection, were you able to sell most of them?
Thank you so much for sharing this interesting post 🙂
I would have recognized that mushroom, but would be very uncertain about cooking wild mushrooms. Your gypsy life is very interesting… I could do it too if if I had internet 😉
Your gypsy life sounds lovely. You see so much of the world as you travel. 😉
Thanks for the photos and the commentary. I loved the pictures of the quail and the deer. Do you carry all your collection around in your RV? Seems like you had a lot for sale.
Great post! So interesting!
Great post as usual Gaelyn, love the mushroom and quail.
very interesting pictures. I liked the quail and the mule deer the best. Great sunset.
that nomadic lifestyle will sure take some beating…
Oh another mushroom picker…I love picking shrooms in Eastern Oregon…sept and october..
That giant oyster mushroom is amazing – I’ve never seen anything like it!
It sounds like you live a bit of a gypsy life – I think that’s wonderful. My husband and I started our marriage in a fifth wheel, traveling from state to state while he built up flight hours. Although we’ve been in houses for the past 9 years, we keep moving and with each move, we dream of the day we will call it quits with the houses and start traveling in the fifth-wheel again!