From: dont.even@bother.com   
      
   On 4/17/2013 8:53 PM, riburr wrote:   
   > Went looking for morels in earnest today.  Saw lots of people in the   
   > forest looking, but no one found anything.  Or, at least they didn't   
   > admit to finding anything.  New foliage is still pretty sparse.  Just   
   > swollen buds and small, immature leaves, which allows you to look pretty   
   > deep into the forest.  When I say nothing, I mean *nothing*.  Even the   
   > ever present small polypores were scarce.   
   >   
   > I'm trying to find new "honey holes" apart from the spots where the   
   > crowds gather.  Hope to continue searching new locations before the   
   > foliage really gets thick.  Also hoping for some rain, everything seems   
   > a little drier than optimal.   
   >   
   > Here's a picture of a low area, near a stream.  Mixed hardwoods here,   
   > oak, poplar, ash, but you can see the foliage is still very immature; See:   
   > http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8659635310_806f211c20_c.jpg   
      
   It's been the strangest spring. Up til a few wks ago it was "winter",   
   then 3 days later suddenly very, very warm and everything just suddenly   
   burst into bloom & bud almost all at once. Now it's back down into the   
   30s at night again, abnormally cool temps for the next week or so. Maybe   
   the shrooms are as confused as I am.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)