I Like Thursday: Outdoors, Indoors, New Doors?

Last week I enjoyed a class on mushroom hunting.  Learned a bunch of things about local mushrooms and how to identify edible mushrooms.  I'm curious, but not ready to make the jump to become a mushroom hunter myself.  However, while hiking over the weekend, I was delighted to find evidence of someone hunting mushrooms near Kripalu.  These look like Dryad's Saddle mushrooms, and had a series of cuts in them.  I found large red mushrooms further along that look like they had been harvested as well.

I got a kick that someone propped up a bit of bark with the blue trail marker on this tree that had been split apart.  I could see I was going the right way!


I loved these itty bitty purple, yellow and white flowers.  They were no more than a half-inch wide.  So pretty!

Fireworks!  A surprise on Saturday night with the added bonus of a good vantage point surrounded by a few friends and strangers as we all oohed and ahhed. 

Ever heard of Tibetan bowls?  I attended a wonderful meditation/concert with these over the weekend.  This video is the closest I can find to what I listened to (many videos had extra instruments - not just the bowls), although the bowls I listened to were played slower and quieter.  Really beautiful.

So that's outdoors and indoors.  The new doors?  I'm off to a home inspection today.  We're buying a house!  Nervous.  Excited.  Overwhelmed.  Over a year of looking and we seem to have found a house (or rather I should say it found us - dropped into our laps).  Certainly something that should go on I Like Thursday.  Wish us luck!

That's it for me.  But there's others!  Check out I Like Thursday over at Not Afraid of Color.