From: dimitar@pontix.com   
      
   "John Loomis"  wrote in message   
   news:dmj3eo029ef@enews1.newsguy.com...   
   > Hello Dimitar:   
   >    I reviewed the King Boletes and have taken many pics.   
   > The Large Mushrooms are not ideal.  The best mushroom in the King Bolete   
   > is the "baby"  It is very small, just protruding and that is the "caviar"   
   > The others are usually very wormy, and can be dried.  The Large King   
   > Boletes, are a picture but not a feast.   
      
   I know what you're saying. There were some spectacular specimens in an   
   advanced stage of decay. None of those I kept had any maggots. But   
   I've learned my lesson with waiting.  The big ones I sliced   
   immediately and dried them in the hotel room. It was a posh hotel   
   (one of the only few rooms available in Mendocino). Charged me like   
   hell -- how did I dry them -- blew the heater to the max and opened   
   the windows. Put the mushrooms at the heat stream for a couple of   
   hours. I'm sorry to do such a thing, but they jacked the price pretty   
   steep during the holidays, so I didn't feel all that bad. The room   
   service guys asked me in the morning if I'm a commercial picker,   
   although that I didn't quite fit the profile. The bonus was that in   
   the morning the lawn in front of the hotel was a mushroom garden, all   
   kinds of mushrooms -- 4 lbs. of T. flavovirens and two Queen   
   boletes. Anyway, I'm rambling...   
      
   > I love the pictures, and I have so many but not enough time to show them.   
      
   I made around 300 pics in 4 days, but need to work them out   
   slowly. Unfortunately, my battery ran out and I used my backup to blow   
   some great chances the last day.  Had a gorgeous patch of   
   A. caliptrata and all of the shots were screwed up.   
      
   > Dentinum Repadnum is coming in now (hedge hog)   
      
   Found one small D. umbilicatum, less than what I saw 5 weeks ago.   
   But  they should be happenning soon.   
      
           D.   
      
   > This year has been awsome..... I have never seen so many.   
   > "Dimitar Bojantchev"  wrote in message   
   > news:9rWdnQfhO6eBiBHenZ2dnUVZ_sadnZ2d@comcast.com...   
   >> Just a brief short note before I prepare a more extensive pictorial   
   >> overview.   
   >>   
   >> Spent 4 days over the local Holidays getting lost in the forest.  Got   
   >> tired of hearing all of the stories about Oregon where the major action   
   >> was until recently. The wave moved Southwarth.  The season has been   
   >> late locally, since just today we're getting the first substantial fall   
   >> rain in   
   >> the San Fran area (month late).   
   >>   
   >> But 120 miles North it is the depth of the season. Boletes of several   
   >> kinds, edible or just gorgeous, Coccora (Amanita caliptrata), white   
   >> and yellow chanterrelles, Tricholoma flavovirens, Shrimp Russulas in   
   >> amazing quantities and a few matsutakes starting to pop up. Not to   
   >> mention the other diversity -- colorful Corts, Entolomas, you name   
   >> it. Not to mention the coral reef.   
   >>   
   >> As far as Boletus, the first day only.   
   >>   
   >> http://pontix.com/mushrooms/20051124-27/Boletus%20edulis%20&%20aereus.jpg   
   >> http://pontix.com/mushrooms/20051124-27/B2.jpg   
   >>   
   >> Dangerous stretch -- Hwy 1, between Mendocino and Ft. Bragg -- hard to   
   >> keep your eyes on the road when edulis babes hitch-hike your   
   >> attention...   
   >>   
   >> http://pontix.com/mushrooms/20051124-27/DangStretch1.jpg   
   >> http://pontix.com/mushrooms/20051124-27/DangStretch2.jpg   
   >> http://pontix.com/mushrooms/20051124-27/DangStretch3.jpg   
   >>   
   >> I'll put an extensive pictorial overview sometime during the following   
   >> days when I sort it all out.   
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   >>        D.   
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