Showed up just before the cold front, day before yesterday. Hate to waste time cutting through Gooseberry, Multifloral Rose, Green Brier all intertwined with Poison Ivy and Oak (only looking like attractive ornamentals at present). Finally had some luck, by cutting off mycelia shot dirt from the bases and placing the material under/in dead American Elms on our property, after a decade of doing so. Still, `new' patches, in remote locations `must' be ferreted out. I just snap the pictures and haul the gear (don't eat the things, myself). I do know they were selling for $50.00 a lb., in Callaway County (Fulton) year-before-last. Some of our `volunteers' from 4/19/11. Be glad when the second week of May arrives and we can get back down into the stream drainages with the rest of the fossils. Oh, the turkey hens ate most of one. The toms and the chooks ignored them.
