Haven't been out. No time. Projects are done now. A nice patch of Boletes (no bitter ones this time) would make my year.

No wil' mush out there?

Had some chanterelles this year but it's been hot and dry for nearly a month now and thus no fungi among I these days.

Pretty typical for my woods.

I put up four vac sealed packs in the freezer and will make a pie with some sooner or later when I feel like baking.

Always hopeful for summer boletes but no rain, no 'shroomage.

Sliced up some oyster mushrooms and some shitake I found at our local farmers market. The oysters were really firm. Probably use them for soup. Shitakes were great.

I went looking this afternoon (98- 101F) to see if the Sparassis are up yet, if at all. It is time to start watching for them. They seem to be able to power through no rain and hard woodland soils when they feel like it. Not seen so far though. No rain to happen for this month at all it looks like so we'll see.

We had a hot rainy period followed by several days of hot over 95F. Wish I had gone out a couple days after the rain.

My daughter picks lots of chatarelle from the forest around our house in Sweden.

You pass one day and there is nothing.

Next day they are there.

Delicious.

I found a mess of chanterelles once enroute to my hunting spot 2 hours NW of here. Nothing was there the last 5 times I checked. Found some very fresh, pure white (rough cap surface) buttons at the store. They'll do for now.

Yesterday we had guests coming to lunch at our home.

Walking in the mountains in Verbier, Switzerland, came to a restaurant that had chanterelles for sale.

Picked 4 boxes of 500 grams each and to them home.

My wife, and later on our guests, were very happy!