Lobsters

A haul of our most delicious parasitic mushroom, gathered by Simon Armijo in the White Mountains of Arizona,  100 miles west and higher and wetter than ours…

Muscaria

I actually don’t know many mushroomers; in southern New Mexico, just we and the Armijos, and the blogger MDMN and his wife at Sometimes Far Afield; and since they moved to Roswell we don’t even see them that often. It is a mixed blessing; no “mushroom jams” at the side of the Forest Service roads, …

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Mycology

Going out to look for Boletus edulis this weekend. Here is a collage from previous years. (I am enjoying these photo posts to set the season; never fear, writing will return soon). I assume any reader knows me; others, in order of appearance: Lib, daughter-in-law Niki Mazzia Frishman, Connie Farmer, Della and Simon Armijo (the …

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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.

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 …

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