Chapter 14MUSHROOM HUNTING
In spring, the light rain refreshed the land and a lush green spread over the gentle hills of Iowa. The trees leafed and the flowers bloomed, like a child’s crayons bringing brilliant colors to the drab landscape of winter.
It was the time of year that Grandma Violet and Matilda Kelsey turned into a devoted pair of mushroom warriors for the few weeks of mushroom season. Ivy often joined them.
Matilda Kelsey helped her husband, the doctor and county coroner, run the only medical clinic in town. Despite a twenty-six-year age difference, Grandma and Matilda Kelsey developed a great friendship that grew from their love of mushrooms.
One May morning, as the wild plum trees flowered and the redbud trees bloomed purple, Ivy was hunting for morel mushrooms with Grand
