From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   mimus wrote:   
   > Frederick Burroughs wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>And, thus one of the purposes for this newsgroup; to relate experiences   
   >>with mushrooms, be they positive, negative or indifferent.   
   >   
   >   
   > Well, I just went out for the first time in years, and The Mushroom Report   
   > is "Nada nothing nohow".  Not even along stream-beds.  Not even   
   > slime-molds.   
   >   
   > Bah.   
   >   
   > I was hoping for _Pleurotus_, _Morchella_ and/or _Hericium_, three Spring   
   > notables here in the Ohio River Valley (the first is common but really   
   > mostly in early Spring, the second, _esculenta_ and _semilibera_, should   
   > be up over the next week or so-- we need a good flushing rain for 'em,   
   > though-- and the third, _caput-ursae_ IIRC, I've just collected a couple   
   > of times but is pretty cool, especially sliced so as to preserve the teeth   
   > and then lightly sauteed and used in soup).   
   >   
   > Nice hike, anyway, of course.   
   >   
   > And I practiced my log-walking quite assiduously.   
   >   
      
   Much the same here, in the oak-hickory forests of the Virginia   
   mountains.  I did meet a gentleman in the woods, today looking for   
   Morchella elata.  He boasted he found three, but I have my doubts.  (He   
   didn't show his, out of shame or embarrassment.)  It still dips into the   
   low 40°s F. at night.  I'm also looking for Polyporus squamosus this   
   time of year; the forest's way of telling me it's time to get back in   
   the saddle again.  Brought my basket bare back home.  I'm gonna try a   
   different spot tomorrow.  Plus, no hunting spring gobbler on Sunday.   
      
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