we almost didn’t take a walk this morning. i had a desk full of unfinished business. my husband had an inbox full of unanswered emails. it was chilly and windy. but for no particularly virtuous reason we took a walk, and were rewarded with this handful of morels–among the first of the year. it was a good reminder that no amount of email inbox maintenance ever produces a dinner of sauteed morel mushrooms poured over an omelette of freshly laid eggs.

morel mushrooms

along an undisclosed portion of lake vadnais, saint paul, minnesota