Something from southern Moravia

[salix]

Vladimir, your English is quite understandable. I enjoy reading your posts, thank you for sharing your pictures.

[Medbury Gardens]

Enjoyed viewing your photos Vladimír,keep em coming

[Doug9345]

I also enjoy your posts Vladmir. I very seldom have any trouble understanding your English.

[carolyn137]

Vladimir, just letting you know that tonight I watched those two wonderful Czech ladies beat Serena and Venus Williams in a doubles match at the US Tennis Open.

I think many were surprised by the result, but those two women played a terrific match.

Both are blondes. Is blonde hair common for womens hair color in the Czech Republic?

Just curious.

Carolyn, who wished she could spell their names, but it would mean going elsewhere and copying them down to post here.

[MrBig46]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Vladimir, just letting you know that tonight I watched those two wonderful Czech ladies beat Serena and Venus Williams in a doubles match at the US Tennis Open.

I think many were surprised by the result, but those two women played a terrific match.

Both are blondes. Is blonde hair common for womens hair color in the Czech Republic?

Just curious.

Carolyn, who wished she could spell their names, but it would mean going elsewhere and copying them down to post here.

US Open begun in TV Eurosport 1 from midnight our time. I looked only women singles. Finale of mix and semifinal of womens double wasn´t in TV Eurosport. I like Andrea Hlaváčková for her optimism and gladness from tennis
Yes, blonde hairs are common for womens hair color in the Czech Republic, alike in Germany, but less than Scandinavia or Netherlands. For example my mother was blond and I had blond hair as a child too. From Czech tennis player had blond hairs Jana Novotná from Brno.Martina Navrátilová I don´t know. It is 7 p.m. and I look at match Djokovic- Wawrinka.
I wish a nice afternoon with tennis in TV. Vladimír

[MrBig46]

Do you mushroom too?
Vladimír

[Worth1]

Vladimir I have enjoyed you pictures very much.
You might be surprised to know that many Texans come from your country as my family came from Germany.
Many years ago they came to central Texas as it reminded them of home.

In many small towns they still speak in their native language.
As for the blonde hair I too was born with it now it is what we call dishwater blond.

I would like to go to eastern Europe some day.
I got to go there many years ago and had a great time it was like being home again.
Many people in our group didn't get along too well there.
I got along just fine and thought everyone was very nice.
I think it was my straight forwad honest attitude that made the difference.

Accepting other people's way of life can take you very far in an other land.

Worth

[MrBig46]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Vladimir I have enjoyed you pictures very much.
You might be surprised to know that many Texans come from your country as my family came from Germany.
Many years ago they came to central Texas as it reminded them of home.

In many small towns they still speak in their native language.
As for the blonde hair I too was born with it now it is what we call dishwater blond.

I would like to go to eastern Europe some day.
I got to go there many years ago and had a great time it was like being home again.
Many people in our group didn't get along too well there.
I got along just fine and thought everyone was very nice.
I think it was my straight forwad honest attitude that made the difference.

Accepting other people's way of life can take you very far in an other land.

Worth

Worth, of course I didn´t know about Czech in Texas. I lived fourty years in the country, where the censorship wielded the press and those Czechs which exited republic after 1948 year as if they died (for example Lendl, Navrátilová, Forman, Madelene Albright). About USA was feasible to write only that what was bad. I got to hear something about Czechs in Texas in April this year (after emergency in the town West). Czech government got to West 250000 dolars, were some offerings of money and four children form West came to Prague. This all was at TV.
Vladimír

[livinonfaith]

Lovely photos, Vladimir! Enjoyed the story about the castle, too. Funny to name it after a squirrel hunt!

I do love mushrooms and have tried to learn which ones in my area are edible. While I am fairly certain I've identified a few good and choice ones, there are too many dangerous ones here for me to take a chance. So there is only one that I will pick and eat. That one is called the Lion's mane, or bearded mushroom. It doesn't look like anything else, so I know it is safe! It is also very tasty!

Is that a type of bolete in your basket?

[MrBig46]

Originally Posted by livinonfaith

Lovely photos, Vladimir! Enjoyed the story about the castle, too. Funny to name it after a squirrel hunt!

I do love mushrooms and have tried to learn which ones in my area are edible. While I am fairly certain I've identified a few good and choice ones, there are too many dangerous ones here for me to take a chance. So there is only one that I will pick and eat. That one is called the Lion's mane, or bearded mushroom. It doesn't look like anything else, so I know it is safe! It is also very tasty!

Is that a type of bolete in your basket?

Every Czech (Slovak too) is mushroom- picker. It is mania. There are many book about mushroom, it write about mushrooms in news papers and magazines and they are at TV too. The children learn from the parents and at the school too. They mainly learn to cognize toadstools, but it is sorrowful, that some Czech peoples také poision every year.: (
Vladimír

[Andrey_BY]

Vladimir, as I can see you've got very similar country habits with Belarus and Russia. Almost everybody knows which mushrooms are good and used to pick them from May until early November. And there are even winter edible mushrooms!
we call it "quiet hunting" and we are passionate mushroom hunters with my younger daughter as well

Originally Posted by MrBig46

Every Czech (Slovak too) is mushroom- picker. It is mania. There are many book about mushroom, it write about mushrooms in news papers and magazines and they are at TV too. The children learn from the parents and at the school too. They mainly learn to cognize toadstools, but it is sorrowful, that some Czech peoples také poision every year.: (
Vladimír

[MrBig46]

Originally Posted by Andrey_BY

Vladimir, as I can see you've got very similar country habits with Belarus and Russia. Almost everybody knows which mushrooms are good and used to pick them from May until early November. And there are even winter edible mushrooms!
we call it "quiet hunting" and we are passionate mushroom hunters with my younger daughter as well

Andrey, you are right. I don´t wonder, because Czech, Russian,Slovak,Belarussian,.… are slavs and they have some identical genes all long two milleniums. What mushrooms vegetate in Belarus now?
A nice day Vladimír

[Worth1]

Vladimir I am wishing life is better for you and your people now.
Sometimes I forget the past.
My family picked mushrooms but moving from the farm I forgot how to look and pick.
I would poison myself for sure.
Worth

[MrBig46]

The plums are most favorite fruit in on the east Moravia. They are doing from them favorite plum cookies (švestkové koláčky) and more favorite liquid plums (slivovice) with 55-60 % C2H5OH). I don´t cook usually at home. But I do some foods cook myself- for example plum cookies. I did them on last Tuesday. I have like them. Some pictures.
Vladimír

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by MrBig46

The plums are most favorite fruit in on the east Moravia. They are doing from them favorite plum cookies (švestkové koláčky) and more favorite liquid plums (slivovice) with 55-60 % C2H5OH). I don´t cook usually at home. But I do some foods cook myself- for example plum cookies. I did them on last Tuesday. I have like them. Some pictures.
Vladimír

The plums you show in the first picture are elongated ovals and look to me like what I know as Italian Prune PLums.

Is the flesh yellow and wonderfully sweet?

On the farm where I grew up there were two huge trees with those plums, planted who knows when by the Shakers when they owned the property and that takes us back to the mid-1800's.

I've been having a discussion with a local lady who says she won't eat ANY plum that has yellow flesh, only those that have red flesh. I told her that plums were domesticated in China, which they were, and then moved West and that the sugar level (Brix) content of yellow fleshed plums was higher than red fleshed plums.

Plum cookies? Never heard of using them for cookies, so why not cakes and more?

Just noting that my mother was a mushroom picker, learned from her relatives, and my brother and I used to go with her to find them. Not in the woods, but in abandoned pasture where cows used to roam.

I love mushrooms and in the Hudson Valley south of where we lived there were several commercial places where they grew the typical white button ones in caves and my father would bring home from market the oval boxes they were packed in.

And when I moved where I am today there was a wonderful place where they raised all kinds of mushrooms for sale, but the place burned down, so no more mushrooms from them.

The closest access I have to local mushrooms now is that they grow in the track of a sliding door, not on the track itself, but in between the screen and the glass door.

I don't harvest them, I just look at them.

Carolyn