WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)

[Chap]

She always steels the show… but her cuteness is just camo, she can be pretty maleficent

[ARNC]

@Chap I also went to see the trees (but without the stunning hat and haul of mushrooms). One tree clearly wasn’t too pleased to see me but another was much more accommodating. I just sat there surrounded by green for over an hour until my batteries were recharged.

[Chap]

Very nice @ARNC I do that quite often… always helpful after a busy day at work. The Japanese call it Shinrin Yoku - Forest bathing

[ARNC]

@Chap:

Very nice @ARNC I do that quite often… always helpful after a busy day at work. The Japanese call it Shinrin Yoku - Forest bathing

I hadn’t come across the specific term, but I know trees are good for me.

[Chap]

I know it’s getting boring…

[motojobobo]

@Chap:

I know it’s getting boring…

It’s not @Chap , I love these mushroom posts even though I know next to nothing about them. Seems like we have very little knowledge/books/recipes about tropical shrooms than temperate ones. Please keep the mushroom pics, comments and dishes coming!

[Matt]

I love the idea of foraging for mushrooms.  I’ve never tried.  Not much in the way of options out here though.  I could forage for tumbleweeds maybe.

[Chap]

@Matt:

I love the idea of foraging for mushrooms.  I’ve never tried.  Not much in the way of options out here though.  I could forage for tumbleweeds maybe.

wouldn't expect any mushroom where you live @Matt we had a very dry summer I am almost daily in the forests around our house and no single mushroom could be spotted. Now after some rainy days they seem to pop up everywhere…

@motojobobo I am happy I know a bit about those growing here… we have about 15.000 different species of mushrooms in Austria, only a few are eatable about a dozen is even toxic. I only get those I can identify clearly... don't know anything about mushrooms growing in other parts of the world.

[goosehd]

@Chap Are there truffles in your area?

[Chap]

@goosehd:

@Chap Are there truffles in your area?

There are… black ones can be found. But you of course need a trained dog to find them. I have friends with two truffle dogs from Italy and they do find quite a lot.

[goosehd]

@Chap Do you have or recommend a guide book for mushrooms?  When you first started, did you examine the spores to ensure your identification was correct?

I’m a neophyte and at this point only collect morels which are easy for me to identify and always tasty.

[Matt]

What are you talking about @Chap ?!?  Doesn’t this look like mushroom country to you?

[goosehd]

@Matt What a cool picture!!  I imagine it would be kind of easy to get lost there if you weren't paying attention.

[endo]

@Matt great picture indeed, and doesn't look like mushrooms in the ground there, but probably lots of dead bodies

[Matt]

That’s literally across the street from my neighborhood.  If you turn the camera around there’s a mountain.

[goosehd]

that's cool    You get to wake up to that view everyday!!

[Chap]

@Matt:

What are you talking about @Chap ?!?  Doesn’t this look like mushroom country to you?

No… it doesn’t. The only thing I can see are rattlesnakes, lots of rattlesnakes, this looks like rattlesnake country… I can even hear them while looking at that pic… and it’s so… flat. I think I‘ve never been anywhere where the land is that flat. If there weren’t the rattlesnakes I really would love to visit you…

[Matt]

I’d love to tell you we never see any but…

[goosehd]

@Matt So you have seen some.  Is it a rare sighting or something that happens quite a bit?  How about the scorpions and gila monsters?

All of this stuff plays into my irrational fears, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't mind seeing them (just not surprising them).

[Matt]

I haven’t seen any scorpions but some people get them in the house. I spray.  Rattlesnakes are a rare site and disappear totally from October to May.  Gila Monsters are extremely rare.  Black widows have infested my back yard by they don’t mess with you.  I’ve been sitting on top of one nesting under my chair in the yard for weeks and never noticed.