Not only have the belated rains kept them coming; perhaps edible Mycology is meme that has finally come to Magdalena. VLA near highway The day of our hunt, we worked our way down Bear Trap Canyon, which runs south from Monica saddle in the San Mateos to finally emerge in ranchland, on our …
Tag: Mushrooms
Late Mushrooms
We are going in search of late boletes tomorrow in the San Mateos, But so far this season all we have is this lonely clutch of lobsters from the White Mountains of Arizona from Simon Armijo.These delicious parasites are more consistent from year to year because they are only found above 10,000 feet, and our …
This year’s Boletes
Not a great year– the southern San Mateos, our main source, were a bit drier than we’d like– but we got a gallon of dried, first adequate harvest in 8 years. The photos span the trip down and back up the Plains of St Augustin by the VLA; flowers, like the white poppies, show we …
This week in the neighborhood
It’s been a great week for wildlife encounters. I was driving down the highway and watched a group of swallows wheeling and flying quickly, with a Swainson’s hawk in their midst. The group flew near the New Fork River bridge and I actually saw the hawk grab a swallow! The hawk flew with the small …
Mais ou sont les cepes d’antan?
Or 2006 anyway; none so far in 2012. Pix from Reid, of me and Libby and Connie above Water Canyon that year.
DONE!
.. and going mushroom hunting. Yesterday at around 11 PM Libby finished the last book cover scan for the book of one hundred books; by midnight I had them back on the shelves. After almost two years of writing two books to deadline– what next? Well, start to write a couple more I suspect. But …
Photos 2– Weather Here & Elsewhere
It is NOT hot here and rarely is, something I despair of making those who equate New Mexico with Arizona understand (NM is one of the highest states in the Union). Greg, Our friend and Lib’s boss at the PO, had to visit his father in Texas and sent us this pic with the label …
Weekend Photoblogging
Anticipating Boletus soon (AKA Cepes, Porcini); the monsoons have returned as has cool weather in the mountains. Lib a few years ago with a choice specimen.
Just a few links
(I have a million but) Neutrino Cannon links to an unusually clear video of what tumbling pigeons do. He is also the only blogger of my acquaintance to note the passing at 83 of the man who invented hard rock– in 1958!– Link Wray, the man whose “Rumble” was the only instrumental ever banned on …
Cepe Success!
The ‘shrooms have arrived or, as Peculiar wrote, channeling Chaucer (“…had he lived in the Southern Rockies and been more interested in fungi than relics”): “Whan that August with his shoures sootethe droghte of June hath perced to the roote,and bathed every veyne in swich parfoumof which vertu engendred is the shroum…. “…thanne longen southwestryn …